RE: NIC bonding + IP alias?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

Brian,

One other question: it currently takes almost 30 seconds from the time I
run "service network start" to the time the interfaces respond to ping. 
I notice the following in dmesg:

bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
tg3: eth2: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth2: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
bond_enslave(): failed to get speed/duplex from eth2, speed forced to
100Mbps, duplex forced to Full.
bond0: making interface eth2 the new active one.
bond0: enslaving eth2 as an active interface with an up link.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

eth2 is a 1000BaseSX fiber gigE device, so bond_enslave trying to force
it to 100 Mbps is crazy.  Any ideas why it takes 30 seconds to come
online?

/etc/modules.conf:
alias eth0 tg3
alias eth1 tg3
alias eth2 tg3
alias bond0 bonding
alias scsi_hostadapter cciss
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
options bonding mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth2
probeall bond0 eth0 eth1 bonding

/Brian/

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