On Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:04, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>> In our startup scripts we need to be able to ensure that the
>> interface name is consistent across reboots. Sometimes bond1 may be
>> brought up before bond0 and it may have different options (requiring
>> a different instance of the bond
Jari Takkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 17:24, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>> What advantage does this have over:
>>
>> # echo +bond5 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
>>
>> which will create a new bonding master for the already-loaded driver?
>>
>
>The advantage
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 16:56, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> You could (should) make be unsigned int and then use
> module_param(ifnum, uint, 0); and then ...
>
> then this block is mostly useless since ifnum cannot be < 0.
> And how could it ever be > INT_MAX (when ifnum was an int)?
>
> If is
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 17:24, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> What advantage does this have over:
>
> # echo +bond5 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
>
> which will create a new bonding master for the already-loaded driver?
>
The advantage is that you can load multiple instances of the
Jari Takkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the bonding
>driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding driver
>and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example, if the
>user wishes to cre
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:20:48 -0500 Jari Takkala wrote:
> Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the
> bonding driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding
> driver and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example,
> if the
Allow the user to specify an initial interface number when loading the bonding
driver. This is useful when loading multiple instances of the bonding driver
and you want to control the interface number assignment. For example, if the
user wishes to create a bond5 interface they can type 'modprobe
