NIC Bonding Issue on BL460c G7 with Linux

[Kent Wicker]

Hello,

I am new to HP servers but now have a new chassis with several BL460c's and the virtual connect modules.

The issue is that the VC modules auto set the port speed, in this case 6000Mb/s, but the linux bonding driver loads with an error and sets the bond0 interface to 100Mb/s full duplex.  The error is the following:

bonding: bond0: Warning: failed to get speed and duplex from eth1, assumed to be 100Mb/sec and Full.

I assume the bonding module does not like the non-standard port speeds because if I set the port speed to 100, 1000, or 10000Mb/s the error does not show and the bond0 interface has the correct speed.

I am using the bonding module built in to Red hat 5.7.  Is there an HP modified module that should be used?  If not is there a way to get the bond0 interface to have the correct speed?

[Jimmy Vance]

There is an issue with the bonding driver not understanding the "custom" speeds. Please open a case with HP support, and have the case escalated.

[Casper42]

Or if you don't need the extra speed, go into the VC Profile and change the speed for the NICs to 1.0Gb/s
I'm sure RHEL will understand those speeds.

I vaguely remember RHEL being ok with 2.5Gb/s as well so if you have the time to test, try that as well.

[Jimmy Vance]

Current versions of RHEL don't have an issue with any custom speeds you can set on a FLEX-NIC in VC. The bonding driver is coded to only recognise specific speeds. The speeds being 10, 100, 1000, 10000