From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Friesen" Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] quick help with bonding? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:19:08 -0600 Message-ID: <460C658C.7090803@nortel.com> References: <460BE5F0.7070606@nortel.com> <20070329181617.GA25770@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> <460C38EF.1080509@nortel.com> <4074.1175207458@death> <460C4EFE.6030505@nortel.com> <20070330003630.GA18319@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jay Vosburgh , netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To: Andy Gospodarek Return-path: Received: from zrtps0kp.nortel.com ([47.140.192.56]:34558 "EHLO zrtps0kp.nortel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934366AbXC3BTW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:19:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070330003630.GA18319@gospo.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Andy Gospodarek wrote: > If you are looking for a decent source for patches you could consider > downloading the latest source-rpm from RHEL4/CentOS4. The bonding > driver in those releases have been updated to much later code and I can > tell you from personal experience they work pretty well. You may need > to do some backporting to get the latest arp-monitoring features, but > let me know if you need a hand with that, I might have some laying > around. ;) I'm just about to load a kernel with a backport of bonding from 2.6.14. I'll try it out and if it doesn't help I'll try the RHEL4 one. > Does eth6 use the same hardware/driver as eth4/5? (Sorry if I missed > that in the thread, but didn't see if you indicated that it did.) No, eth6 is an AMD-8111. Chris