topic Re: Bonding Problem in Operating System - Linux

Bonding Problem

Tim Goodman — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:24:26 GMT

I set up bonding with RHEL 3 server on a DL380 G5 server. When the server first boots up and you ping it you will get about 70% packet loss. But if I do a network restart command everything starts working fine. I specified mode=1 in my options.conf.

Any ideas to why this is happening?

Re: Bonding Problem

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:15:54 GMT

Tim,

1) I suggest to to upgrade your RHEL3 to the latest update level
2) which NIC driver and bonding driver do you use?

Re: Bonding Problem

Tim Goodman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:56:24 GMT

I am using update RHES 3 Update 8. I can't go past this because of the vendor/app requirements.

I am using the bnx2 nic driver and I have updated it to the latest version.

Re: Bonding Problem

palaniappan.sp — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:50:28 GMT

Hi,
Are the two servers r in the same domain??Is the driver, what u loaded is compatible??
Can u able to send the details of NIC and driver module loaded??
It will be easy for the people to give solutions..

Redgs
palani

Re: Bonding Problem

Yogeeraj_1 — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:51:58 GMT

hi,

what errors do you see in the /var/log/messages or when you run dmesg ?

revert

kind regards
yogeeraj

Re: Bonding Problem

Tim Goodman — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:35:03 GMT

Update - This server also had a dual port Intel e1000 pci nic in it so on a whim I tried teaming those 2 nics and it works like a charm.

Ansering the prevous question about dmesg, there were no errors in it.

Thanks you everyone for their ideas and suggestions.