Hi,

After deploying some new Dell PowerEdge 1950 running RHEL 5.2, I've
seen the following problem : The cacti/snmp graphs for a bonded
interface made from the two ports of a dual PCIe Intel NIC were wrong.

After investigating, here's what I currently see :
- The values ifconfig reports seem wrong too
- The values found in /proc/net/dev seem wrong too
- Using "iptraf", I don't see the bonded interface, but the values for
the two physical interfaces seem good (!?)

Values :
- From snmp : 800Mbps for both eth2 and eth3, 1.6Gbps for bond1
- From ifconfig and /proc/net/dev : About 100MB/s for the eth
and 200MB/s for bond1 (rough estimate, but matches what's seen with
snmp)
- From iptraf : 190Mbps for both eth2 and eth3, which means a total of
380Mbps, which is the much more realistic value and about 1/4th of the
value reported by snmp/ifconfig.

The system has been installed as 32bit and is running the
2.6.18-92.el5PAE kernel, as x86_64 was not an option here. The bonded
interfaces are using the e1000 kernel module.

Does this problem ring a bell to anyone? I don't recall seeing it
before, but I don't think I've ever had a 100% identical setup, which
could explain.

Matthias

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