topic Re: Bonding driver RHEL 5 x86_64 in Operating System - Linux

Bonding driver RHEL 5 x86_64

StarAdmin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:45:00 GMT

Hi,

Is there an HP bonding driver for RHEL 5?
I've set-up a bonded pair of NICs using the standard Linux driver but am not getting SNMP traps when one cable is pulled.
Is HP Bonding driver what is needed here?

Cheers,

Re: Bonding driver RHEL 5 x86_64

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:40:28 GMT

Shalom,

You don't need a driver.

All you need to do is change modprobe.conf and the ifconfig configuration files.

http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/rhel5/rhel5_administration/rhel5_s1-modules-ethernet.html

http://www.mail-archive.com/rhelv5-list@redhat.com/msg00639.html

Few ways to do it.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1198234

SEP

Re: Bonding driver RHEL 5 x86_64

StarAdmin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:06:16 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Bonding works fine and setting it up is no issue.

What happens is that when the NICs are bonded I'm not getting an SNMP trap generated when one of the cables gets pulled.

This is a DL380G5. With NICs that aren't bonded pulling a cable causes the HP NIC agents to generate an SNMP trap.

I was wondering if the HP bonding driver was needed to generate trap for a bonded interface.

Cheers