2002-10-10 07:38:47

by lao nightwolf

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Subject: use of bonding in kernel 2.4.19

Hello,

I've read in some posts to this list that there's a bug in kernel 2.4.19
stable regarding the use of bonding.

I've setup bonding myself yesterday with the patch from
sourceforge.net/projects/bonding and everything works as it should be

bond0 is bringing up both my nic's eth0 and eth1.

Is this because I use an external patch? Or can someone give me more
explanation about using bonding in kernel 2.4.19. Or should I wait till
2.4.20 is released (does someone know when this will be? +/-)

Regards,
Lao


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2002-10-10 10:56:23

by Gianni Tedesco

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Subject: Re: use of bonding in kernel 2.4.19

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:44, lao nightwolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've read in some posts to this list that there's a bug in kernel 2.4.19
> stable regarding the use of bonding.
>
> I've setup bonding myself yesterday with the patch from
> sourceforge.net/projects/bonding and everything works as it should be
>
> bond0 is bringing up both my nic's eth0 and eth1.
>
> Is this because I use an external patch? Or can someone give me more
> explanation about using bonding in kernel 2.4.19. Or should I wait till
> 2.4.20 is released (does someone know when this will be? +/-)

The bonding problem in 2.4.19 is with the default boding code in there.
If you update to the latest bonding patch, then that should fix it.

FYI: This patch does the job for me:
http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/kernel/ECSC-2.4.19/02_bonding-fixes.diff.gz

its from 2.4.20-preX where it was fixed.

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