Hi,
on 5/20/08 9:53 PM Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> bonding.txt from the kernel documentation and found the following for
> mode=1:
>
> ~ In bonding version 2.6.2 or later, when a failover
> ~ occurs in active-backup mode, bonding will issue one
> ~ or more gratuitous ARPs on the newly active slave.
<snip>
> That could for sure explain why a newer kernel might appear to work
Thanks for pointing that. The excerpt explains the behaviour partly.
I played with the setup quite a time and found that the problematic
behaviour relates to the particular network card or to its drivers (e100
and eepro100).
I tried following combinations:
1) I changed primary=eth0 in bonding module options.
2) I changed primary=eth1 and loaded e100 and eepro100 driver as eth1.
3) I changed the physical interface of eth1 with driver e100 onto
another switch.
4) The above experiments lead to experiment with the e100 and eepro100
drivers only.
What I found is that e100 works when no vlans are set over the
active-backup bonding interface. eepro100 driver works not at all or
partly. This is what kernel prints right after enslaving eth0 with
eepro100 driver.
# ifenslave bond0 eth0
# dmesg |tail
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as an active interface with an up link.
bonding: bond0: link status down for active interface eth0, disabling it
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Current message level: 0x000020c1 (8385)
Link detected: yes
I checked the bonding.txt documentation and tried bonding option
use_carrier=0 and miimon link monitor, but those haven't any effect on
either eepro100 or e100 driver.
For anyone who might find above information valuable the hardware was
"02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM)
Ethernet Controller (rev 81)" as reported by lspci.
As I mentioned earlier about my working active-backup bonding setup,
there the e100 driver version is 3.5.23 and kernel version the latest
stable 2.6.25.4, but the bonding setup was made somewhere around kernel
version 2.6.2x. The hardware in this particular setup is "00:02.0
Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
08)" as printed by lspci on Debian Etch.
Best regards,
Erkki
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