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Bonding Problem

 
Tim Goodman
Occasional Advisor

Bonding Problem

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?
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Vitaly Karasik_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Bonding Problem

Tim,

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

Re: Bonding Problem

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.
palaniappan.sp
Regular Advisor

Re: Bonding Problem

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
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Yogeeraj_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Bonding Problem

hi,

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

revert

kind regards
yogeeraj
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Tim Goodman
Occasional Advisor

Re: Bonding Problem

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.