Re: NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

2009-02-16 Thread Tony Breeds
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 07:30:52PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote: > 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

Re: NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Fegert
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 > ou

Re: NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

2009-02-15 Thread Tony Breeds
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:40:03PM +0100, Frank Fegert wrote: > Hello all, > > i've got Debian (testing) running on a DLPAR on a pSeries 9117-570. > The system gets several NICs from two VIO servers, which in turn are > connected to different switches for redundancy. Two NICs within each > subnet

NIC bonding on pSeries with dual VIOS

2009-02-12 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello all, i've got Debian (testing) running on a DLPAR on a pSeries 9117-570. The system gets several NICs from two VIO servers, which in turn are connected to different switches for redundancy. Two NICs within each subnet are paired via bonding devices. Now the problem: - If i choose 'balance-r