From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:12:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:12:00 -0400 Received: from sangam.sce.carleton.ca ([134.117.4.4]:43146 "EHLO sangam.sce.carleton.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:11:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3ACA123D.1090200@sce.carleton.ca> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 14:11:09 -0400 From: john knox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-6.1.1 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: gigabit bonding Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi - I have 2 dell power edge 6300 boxes, each with 4 processors and 2 intel 717037 ethernet cards running rh 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-6.1.1smp. I have installed the latest intel nic driver that I could find - v3.0.7. The machines are identical except for the scsi controllers. On one machine, I could bond the cards to one ip and all was well - on the other, the cards worked if brought up singly, but bonding never set the mac of the 2nd card to that of the 1st, although ifenslave doesn't report errors. I can change the mac with ifconfig and the card(s) work fine. I tried swapping the 2 pairs of cards from one machine to the other - now neither pair will bond, although all 4 still work singly. Any guesses as to where I can go next? john