Public bug reported:
The new style of bonding configuration (using "iface bond0 [...] \
bond_slaves none" for the master interface plus "iface ethX inet manual
\ bond_master bond0" for each slave interface) results in the MAC
address of the bond0 interface being randomly picked from one of the
slaves.
This causes problems for auto-configuration methods such as IPv4 DHCP
and IPv6 SLAAC, as DHCPv4 leases and IPv6 Interface Identifiers are
directly based on the interface's MAC address. This means that if the
MAC address changes unexpectedly, so may the IP address(es) as well,
which might be big problem if the machine in question is some sort of
server or similar that have just rebooted.
Unexpected MAC address changes may also cause problems for statically
configured addresses, as the upstream router will likely have cached the
IPv4 ARP and/or the IPv6 Neighbour entry pointing to the old MAC
address. This results in the server not having any network connectivity
until the upstream router have timed out its cache entry and probes
anew. These timeouts may well be up to 20 minutes.
The old configuration style ("iface bond0 [...] \ bond_slaves eth0 eth1
[...]") did not have this problem, as the MAC address used for bond0
would always be the first listed interface (eth0). While I have no
particular objection to the syntax change in itself, the choice of MAC
address should be deterministic. It is probably possible to manually set
the MAC address with the "hwaddr" option, but this is not ideal because
it by necessity means every node must have a unique configuration file,
which is problematic for large automated server deployments for example.
Tore
** Affects: ifenslave-2.6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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MAC address of bonding interface is randomly picked
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