Re: use of bonding in kernel 2.4.19

[Gianni Tedesco]

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On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:44, lao nightwolf wrote:
> Hello,
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> I've read in some posts to this list that there's a bug in kernel 2.4.19=20
> stable regarding the use of bonding.
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> I've setup bonding myself yesterday with the patch from=20
> sourceforge.net/projects/bonding and everything works as it should be
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> bond0 is bringing up both my nic's eth0 and eth1.
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> Is this because I use an external patch? Or can someone give me more=20
> explanation about using bonding in kernel 2.4.19. Or should I wait till=20
> 2.4.20 is released (does someone know when this will be? +/-)

The bonding problem in 2.4.19 is with the default boding code in there.
If you update to the latest bonding patch, then that should fix it.

FYI: This patch does the job for me:
http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/kernel/ECSC-2.4.19/02_bonding-fixes.diff.gz

its from 2.4.20-preX where it was fixed.

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