From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Vosburgh Subject: Re: My 802.3ad is my bond Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:13:25 -0800 Message-ID: <26889.1201108405@death> References: <1201103100.22038.254.camel@quoit> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Steven Whitehouse Return-path: Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:58397 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752861AbYAWRNo (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:13:44 -0500 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m0NHDhJx000452 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:13:43 -0500 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m0NHDVvY083614 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:13:36 -0700 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m0NHDVqj021485 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:13:31 -0700 In-reply-to: <1201103100.22038.254.camel@quoit> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Steven Whitehouse wrote: [...] >This commit: ece95f7fefe3afae19e641e1b3f5e64b00d5b948 seems to have >caused a problem with parsing bond arguments as now only the numeric >arguments seem to work (in modprobe.conf) and specifying 802.3ad fails. >When I revert that patch in my local tree all seems ok. Thanks for the report; I know what the problem here is. I'll get a fix out. >Also I notice that one of my two NICs now reports this: > >bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth0, >disabling it >bonding: bond0: Interface eth0 is already enslaved! >bond0.5: no IPv6 routers present > >which I think is also new with this set of bonding updates, before it >used to use both interfaces ok. I've not worked out which of the other >patches causes this so far, but I can if its helpful, That would be helpful, as would some more details: e.g., the various options passed to bonding, the complete dmesg log, contents of /proc/net/bonding/bond0 [or whatever your interface is called], and anything else you think would be helpful. -J --- -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com