On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:32:26AM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:40:03PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote:
> If you uipgrade to a newer (sorry) kernel then you'll get a failover_mac
> option
> to the bonding driver. This will allow you to specify that the MAC address
> for
> outbount packets should be the hardware MAC address. Thsi will stop your
> network admains complaining ;P
>
> However it will not work out of the box. You'll also need to ensure that both
> underlying network devices are in promisicuous mode. This shoudl give you the
> failover you want
>
> Of course it may not be suitable in your environment.
Thanks for the hint, i'll read up on this.
> > - 'balance-alb' would be an alternative, since it uses the MAC of
> > the slave eth-interfaces instead of the one from the bonding inter-
> > face. Unfortunately 'balance-alb' does not seem to be supported
> > with the ibmveth driver.
>
> Hmm can you provide some more details here? I can't see a reason why this
> would be so?
Bonding interface config:
auto bond3
iface bond3 inet static
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
network xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
pre-up echo +bond3 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
pre-up echo balance-alb > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/mode
pre-up echo 3000 > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/arp_interval
pre-up echo "+xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" >
/sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/arp_ip_target
post-up echo +eth6 > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/slaves
post-up echo +eth7 > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/slaves
pre-down echo -eth6 > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/slaves
pre-down echo -eth7 > /sys/class/net/bond3/bonding/slaves
post-down echo -bond3 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
Errors on 'ifup bond3':
bonding: bond3 is being created...
bonding: bond3: setting mode to balance-alb (6).
bonding: bond3: Setting ARP monitoring interval to 3000.
bonding: bond3: ARP monitoring has been set up, but no ARP targets have
been specified.
bonding: bond3: adding ARP target 172.25.123.210.
bonding: bond3: Adding slave eth6.
bonding: bond3: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth6 failed! ALB mode
requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the
network device's interface is open
bonding: bond3 is being deleted...
System:
Linux ***** 2.6.26-1-powerpc64 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 14:42:07 CET 2009 ppc64
GNU/Linux
The same config works - within the previously described limitations -
for active-backup and balance-rr.
> Not sure about your active-backup issuses, I've never used that mode.
:-(
Thanks & regards,
Frank
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