severity 698797 normal severity 602303 normal tags 698797 + wontfix tags 602303 + wontfix merge 698797 602303 thanks
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:55:52PM -0600, Brett Stauner wrote: > This is my first bug report, so please excuse my brevity or verbosity. > I've explained in detail my trouble here: > http://blog.mightybs.net/2013/01/adventures-in-ethernet.html > > When setting up bonding I followed the directions here: > http://wiki.debian.org/Bonding > > After getting the bond0 setup and eth0 removed from definitions I found that > the network connection > was not working. I found an eth0 entry in the routing table, and eth0 while > being marked as a slave > was still showing an IP address assignment in ifconfig. > > The only way I was able to resolve the trouble was to reboot, and then > everything seemed to be working fine. Yes, you should normally first completely shut down any slave interfaces before you bond them together. You should not need to reboot the system, you should have been able to manually run "ifconfig eth0 down". Although I could add a feature in Debian's ifenslave scripts to automatically deconfigure slave interfaces before they are added to the bonding device, I won't do that, because my scripts cannot tell whether that is the right thing to do or not. If you have two LAN interfaces and one WAN interface, and you accidentally configure /etc/network/interfaces to bond one LAN and one WAN interface instead of the two LAN interfaces, then your WAN interface will be gone (very annoying if you are remotely administrating that box). Also, Linux allows addresses and routes for individual interfaces that are part of a bonding interface, and there might be people who use that feature. In the case of Sean Pappalardo's bug report, there is another script which brings up one interface to allow SSH access to provide the computer with a key to decrypt the harddisk. That script should be modified to bring down that interface after use, or one should add an explicit "pre-up ifconfig eth0 down" to the bonding interface's stanza in /etc/network/interfaces. I'll leave these bugs open for now, but if there are no objections I will close them. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>
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