Re: Bonding under RHEL 2.1?

[John Newbigin <jnewbigin ict swin edu au>]

I have backported the updated driver which I use in a number of machines 
and works very well.
http://www.it.swin.edu.au/personal/jnewbigin/patches/bonding.patch

If you want a kernel to test with I can supply that too :)

John.

BQ wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, sorry for mailing here, but as there is (to my
> knowledge) no RHEL 2.1 mailing list ...
>
> I want to setup bonding for 2 interfaces under RHEL 2.1 but, to my
> surprise, I saw that RedHat gives only some ancient version of the
> bonding module.
>
> Does anyone know if bonding is supported at all under RHEL 2.1?
>
> This module doesn't accept any parameters.
> Although I managed to get the bond interface up (on IBM HS20 blade),
> it doesn't work properly (loosing packets, network being slow).
>
> Is there any supported way to get this working, apart from moving to
> RHEL 3 (which I can't do :( ).
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> BQ
>
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John Newbigin
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Swinburne University of Technology
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