I have seen this happen before, actually all of the time.  In my case it has
done it with RHEL 5.2 also.  Every time a reboot has corrected this though.

Adam

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:

> James Cammarata wrote:
> > Ok, so I've been doing some research after trying to use cobbler to build
> a
> > few systems with bonding for the first time.  I noticed that it puts the
> > bonding options in the ifcfg file rather than modprobe.conf, and
> understand
> > that's the "proper" way to do things, but my research shows that was
> > something that was added to RHEL5 (and presumably probably started post
> > Fedora 8/9).
> >
>
> > Is this method supported in RHEL4 though?
>
>
> Adding Andy to "To" in case he misses this one, don't know the answer
> myself...
>
>
> >  We built these systems using
> > RHEL4.6 and bonding is as follows:
> >
> > $ grep BONDING_OPTS /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
> > BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth1"
> >
> > $ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
> > Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.3-rh (June 8, 2005)
> >
> > Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
> > MII Status: up
> > MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
> > Up Delay (ms): 0
> > Down Delay (ms): 0
> >
> > Slave Interface: eth1
> > MII Status: up
> > Link Failure Count: 0
> > Permanent HW addr: 00:22:19:2b:0b:18
> >
> > Slave Interface: eth2
> > MII Status: up
> > Link Failure Count: 0
> > Permanent HW addr: 00:1b:21:34:16:00
> >
> >
> >
> > So it's defaulting to RR, when it should be doing A/S.  Am I doing
> > something wrong, or is this method not supported on RHEL4?  When setting
> up
> > bonding previously, I've only ever put the options in modprobe.conf.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
>
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