Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Bonding-devel] Re: [PATCH] channel bonding: add support for device-indexed parameters | From | Eric Paris <> | Date | Tue, 27 Sep 2005 09:54:29 -0400 |
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It dos work with RHEL3. In modules.conf you just need
alias bond0 bonding options bond0 -o bonding0 alias bond1 bonding options bond1 -o bonding1
You can add your mode and mii_mon and such on the options lines. It does work I've used it.
-Eric
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 09:40 -0400, Florin Malita wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:11:56 -0700 > Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > Florin Malita <fmalita@gmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > > >How can you load a module multiple times on _any_ distro? > > > > modprobe -obond0 bonding mode=your-favorite-mode > > modprobe -obond1 bonding mode=some-other-mode > > > > and so on. This is in the modprobe man page, and is described > > in the bonding documentation (found in the kernel documentation or at > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding). It is admittedly somewhat > > grotty, but it works. > > OK, I see this capability has been in module-init-tools since the 0.8 > days. Doesn't apply to any 2.4/modutils based system tough. > > > > > >Not being able to set a (different) preferred > > >interface/primary for each bond device makes it unacceptable for > > >deployment in our environment. > > > > How are you configuring bonding? The current SuSE distros, for > > example, will do the multiple module load stuff automatically in the > > sysconfig scripts. This is described in the current bonding > > documentation. > > Our systems are RHEL3 based so unfortunately the naming trick above > doesn't work. > > But it does work on RHEL4 so admittedly, having this workaround > available for recent distros removes the urgency for a fix. > > Thanks > Florin > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. > Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very > own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > Bonding-devel mailing list > Bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bonding-devel
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