[CentOS] Networking just stopped working
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Jul 9 12:49:34 UTC 2010
At Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:06 +0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, July 08, 2010 09:40 PM, JohnS wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the
> >> corresponding disabling of hardware acceleration). Maybe the real issue is that
> >> something accidentally disabled it and you now only work when tcpdump
> >> re-enables it. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be managed atomically when
> >> multiple programs may manipulate it and it needs to be propagated across
> >> multiple bonded nics, but maybe something went wrong there. At least some
> >> things log the change so maybe you can get a hint about when it was turned on
> >> and off.
> > ---
> >
> > Check out /proc/net/bonding/bond/YOUR_BOND. Make sure your slave IDs
> > are the same as in aggregator ID. If not it will cause the problem your
> > having. Bad NIC hardware also it's failing over for a reason as the log
> > showed.
> >
>
> They check out. What did help besides running tcpdump forever was to do
> a 'service network restart'. That made the network behave. I wonder
> what's going on...
Are there 'services' that the network 'depends' on, but which are are
started *later* then network? Running 'service network restart' as a cure
suggests this. Do you have any special or custom init scripts relating
to your bonding (maybe something that loads special kernel modules or
something like that)?
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