Problem with NIC bonding on Redhat 9

[ipdipdogshit]

Hi all,

I've got 2 NICs, eth0 and eth1, bonded to bond0. The modules.conf has "mode=1" which should (and I stress *should*) have them in active/standby mode. However, a tcpdump on both NICs shows a lot of traffic going through both, roughly equal amounts. It's causing grief. Both NICs have the same MAC address, but I don't think that's the problem, another box is configured the same and works just fine.

Anyone seen, and preferably solved, this one before?

Thanks in anticipation, IpDip.

 

[ericbrunson]

From the redhat docs:

A.3.2. The Channel Bonding Module

Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind NICs together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy.


Is sounds like this one is doing what it's supposed to and the other one is broken.