https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518713#M86998 Hi there hope you can help me out here.<BR /><BR />I have an RX2600 server with two A7061A Gigabit Tx lan card that I wish to bond with Redhat AS 3 update 3.<BR /><BR />By default, the cards use the tg3 driver and load correctly and can ping other devices on the network. I then use the Redhat supplied bonding driver (Could not find one from HP for the RX2600 server) and create the bond - all seems to be ok and I can ping the bond with no troubles.<BR /><BR />If I then remove a cable from a nic in the bond, I can see in /var/log/messages references to the nic being offline and the bond switching to the other nic.<BR /><BR />My issue comes in that the bond does not appear to be "stable" in that most of the time it takes minutes for the client "ping" test to work and pick up the switch over. For testing purposes, all systems/nics being used are into a single Procurve 2724.<BR /><BR />Of course, sometimes it work very well and maybe all I loose is just a single packet.<BR /><BR />Now being a little experimental, I have compiled the bcm57xx driver and bonding driver from the source files that I have used on my Linux DL380 servers and again I can build the bond all OK, but I get the same results.<BR /><BR />Has anybody managed to create stable bonds on the RX2600 servers?<BR /><BR />Thanks for any help<BR /><BR />Mark Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:03:10 GMT Mark Smithers 2005-04-06T02:03:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518713#M86998 Hi there hope you can help me out here.<BR /><BR />I have an RX2600 server with two A7061A Gigabit Tx lan card that I wish to bond with Redhat AS 3 update 3.<BR /><BR />By default, the cards use the tg3 driver and load correctly and can ping other devices on the network. I then use the Redhat supplied bonding driver (Could not find one from HP for the RX2600 server) and create the bond - all seems to be ok and I can ping the bond with no troubles.<BR /><BR />If I then remove a cable from a nic in the bond, I can see in /var/log/messages references to the nic being offline and the bond switching to the other nic.<BR /><BR />My issue comes in that the bond does not appear to be "stable" in that most of the time it takes minutes for the client "ping" test to work and pick up the switch over. For testing purposes, all systems/nics being used are into a single Procurve 2724.<BR /><BR />Of course, sometimes it work very well and maybe all I loose is just a single packet.<BR /><BR />Now being a little experimental, I have compiled the bcm57xx driver and bonding driver from the source files that I have used on my Linux DL380 servers and again I can build the bond all OK, but I get the same results.<BR /><BR />Has anybody managed to create stable bonds on the RX2600 servers?<BR /><BR />Thanks for any help<BR /><BR />Mark Wed, 06 Apr 2005 02:03:10 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518713#M86998 Mark Smithers 2005-04-06T02:03:10Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518714#M86999 I have an Intel box bonding at my private server farm. Please provide the config files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for the eth cards and I'll review and make suggestions.<BR /><BR />SEP Wed, 06 Apr 2005 08:35:21 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518714#M86999 Steven E. Protter 2005-04-06T08:35:21Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518715#M87000 hi Mark,<BR /><BR />as SEP suggested, it also depends on the heartbeat settings in your config file. you can get further help of SEP in this regard. Wed, 06 Apr 2005 23:28:33 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518715#M87000 kcpant 2005-04-06T23:28:33Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518716#M87001 SEP<BR /><BR />Thanks for the kind offer to look at my config files, I will get them to you ASAP.<BR /><BR />Regards<BR />Mark Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:43:08 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/bonding-on-rx2600-servers/m-p/3518716#M87001 Mark Smithers 2005-04-07T01:43:08Z