Seems the "bond-primary eth0 eth1" stanza was the key I was missing.
You have been most helpful. Thank you As for the > auto bond0.40 > iface bond0.40 inet manual stanzas, are they not required in order to create the required bridges (used wholly by vm instances and not by the host) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574456 Title: hotplug-style bonding does not work after reboot - "service networking restart" needed to get it working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ifenslave-2.6/+bug/574456/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
