bonding - failed to get speed of NIC ?

[Sotomayor, Vicente (ITD)]

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>Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:36 -0400
>From: "William Reich" <reich at ulticom.com>
>Subject: bonding - failed to get speed of NIC ?
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>I have a system setup with IP bonding.
>The NIC cards are 1gig,
>but sometimes, not always, I get this error ( below )
>which makes the NICs into 100Mbps.
>( observed on the RH 4 Update 4 system. )

>Anybody know why ?

>wr

William,

You can specify the speed in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 with something like, ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off"

Hope this helps.