bonding error

[Robin Mordasiewicz]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Rodney McKee wrote:

> We have a pair of RHEL4 1850s running as load balancers in front of our
> webservers.
> One of these systems hangs at infrequent times and a power reset
> required to recover.
>
> One thing I have noticed in the logs during startup is the following
> error:
>
> kernel: bonding: Unknown parameter `'
> kernel: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.1 (October 29, 2004)
> kernel: bonding: MII link monitoring set to 100 ms
>
> The second system does not show any such error and configurations
> between the systems look to be identical.

are you using the bonding driver which ships with the kernel ?