Bonding on pe2850

[Giorgio Zarrelli]

Hi,

you forgot:


arp_ip_target=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx


You need an arp target to use as means to detect the nic failure.

Giorgio Zarrelli



>Normally when I set up machines, I set up bonding as its default (round
robin). >However I now need to set some 2850s running rhel4u6 to use
active-backup.



>If I ifup/ifdown the NICs, it works fine and dandy, and fails over, as seen
in >/proc/net/bonding/bond0



>However if I disconnect the NIC at the switch/server, it doesn’t fail over.
Doesn’t >even show that the link has failed.



>Any ideas?