initscripts and bonding

[Aaron Ross <aaron plusthree com>]

Hi,

We recently upgraded to initscripts initscripts-7.31.16.EL-1. The 
upgrade broke our network settings by failing to set a default gateway 
at all.

We opened a bug report and are working with RedHat to track down the 
problem. In the meantime, we're using /etc/rc.local to correct the 
routing table.

Now, however, we've got a nastier problem. On one of our machines, the 
upgrade completely broke the bonded interface. There is no default 
gateway, but unlike the other machines, manually add the gateway did 
*not* resolve the issue. We are unable to get anywhere on the network, 
even on the local subnet.

The only clue I have at this point is that the physical interfaces have 
no IPs. In other words, when I run ifconfig, bond0 comes up with an IP, 
but the interfaces it is bonding (eth0,eth2) do not. This seems wrong, 
but honestly I'm not sure.

I am trying to bond an Intel and a Broadcom card, and again, this was 
working until a recent upgrade.

Thanks in advance,

Aaron