[Bug 366177] Re: Bonding still broken for bnx2 in Jaunty

[Øystein Viggen]

With bnx2 interfaces on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit:

In a file called /etc/modprobe.d/ip-failover (that we put there
ourselves):

Does not work:
options bonding mode=6 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200 max_bonds=2

Works:
options bonding mode=1 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200 max_bonds=2

mode=6 works on Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit on the same hardware and RHEL 5.5
64-bit on the same hardware.

..so for people with this problem, swapping to mode=1 (active-backup)
should be a functional workaround if you just use bonding for redundancy
and don't really need the extra throughput from many interfaces.

(Where I work we have 52 fairly new DELL-servers that all use bnx2, so
I'll venture a guess that this network controller is fairly common).

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Bonding still broken for bnx2 in Jaunty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366177
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