any tool to help configure bonding?

[Thomas Fess]

No, you don't need to re-complile if your running RHEL4 or RHEL5 that i know, i haven't configured nic-bonding on RHEL3 and below.


--- On Fri, 2/27/09, ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: any tool to help configure bonding?
> To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Friday, February 27, 2009, 2:46 AM
> Hello,
> 
> I don´t know it, all I can say is that I didn´t
> 
> The kernel I´m running is
> 
>  2.6.18-128.el5
> 
> With the default options
> 
> ESG
> 
> 2009/2/26 chloe K <chloekcy2000 at yahoo.ca>
> 
> > thank you for your sharing
> >
> > Do I need to re-compile the kernel to support bonding?
> >
> > thank you
> >
> > *ESGLinux <esggrupos at gmail.com>* wrote:
> >
> > Thanks to all,
> >
> > Finally with your help I have my test system with
> bonding configured.
> >
> > Here is my final configuration for anyone who need it:
> >
> >
> > #more ifcfg-eth0
> > DEVICE=eth0
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > HWADDR=00:0C:29:9D:AE:60
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > MASTER=bond0
> > SLAVE=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> >
> > # more ifcfg-eth1
> > DEVICE=eth1
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > HWADDR=00:0C:29:9D:AE:6A
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> > IPV6INIT=no
> > MASTER=bond0
> > SLAVE=yes
> > USERCTL=no
> >
> > #more ifcfg-bond0
> > DEVICE=bond0
> > IPADDR=192.168.1.193
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > NETWORK=192.168.1.0
> > NETWORKING_IPV6=no
> > GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
> > BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
> > USERCTL=no
> > BOOTPROTO=none
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > TYPE=Ethernet
> >
> > #more route-bond0
> > GATEWAY0=192.168.1.1
> > NETMASK0=255.255.255.0
> > ADDRESS0=192.168.1.0
> >
> >
> > #more /etc/modprobe.conf
> > alias eth0 pcnet32
> > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
> > alias eth1 pcnet32
> > alias bond0 bonding
> > options bond0 mode=4 miimon=100
> >
> >
> > An finally the ifconfig:
> >
> >
> > ifconfig
> > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:9D:AE:60
> > inet addr:192.168.1.193 Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
> > inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe9d:ae60/64 Scope:Link
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500
> Metric:1
> > RX packets:4475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:439 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:320224 (312.7 KiB) TX bytes:56916 (55.5 KiB)
> >
> > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:9D:AE:60
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:2376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:432 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:168785 (164.8 KiB) TX bytes:56334 (55.0 KiB)
> > Interrupt:169 Base address:0x1080
> >
> > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:29:9D:AE:60
> > UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> > RX packets:2103 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> > RX bytes:151679 (148.1 KiB) TX bytes:1984 (1.9 KiB)
> > Interrupt:177 Base address:0x1400
> >
> > lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
> > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> > RX packets:1440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > TX packets:1440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> carrier:0
> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > RX bytes:5616724 (5.3 MiB) TX bytes:5616724 (5.3 MiB)
> >
> > With this configuration ALL works fine. Now Im going
> to test different
> > configurations,
> >
> > Thanks again
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > ESG
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