[CentOS] nic bonding

[Smithies, Russell]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your comments.
I understand what bonding is and how it works and ours is working fine.
Just not sure why I don't have any /proc/net/bond* files

--Russell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Rajagopal Swaminathan
> Sent: Monday, 17 January 2011 4:31 p.m.
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] nic bonding
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> do updatedb
> Please locate the <something>bonding.txt in the installation
> 
> go through the procedure
> 
> You need to modprobe bonding (with mii settings)
> you need to manually create the bond0 files
> you need to edit ethx interfaces to enslave them to the bonding master
> you need to configure the ports in a managed switch to accomodate
> bonded interface ports.
> 
> Don't expect n x speed (where n is the number of NICs bonded).
> 
> HTH
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rjagopal
> 
> On 1/17/11, Smithies, Russell <Russell.Smithies at agresearch.co.nz>
> wrote:
> > Afraid not, no /proc/net/bonding either.
> > This is all I can see:
> >
> > [root at inbfop03 ~]# find / -name bonding 2>/dev/null
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.32.1.el5/kernel/drivers/net/bonding
> > /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/kernel/drivers/net/bonding
> > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64/drivers/net/bonding
> > /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.32.1.el5-x86_64/drivers/net/bonding
> >  [root at inbfop03 ~]# find / -name bond0 2>/dev/null
> > /sys/class/net/bond0
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/bond0
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh/bond0
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/bond0
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/bond0
> > /proc/net/dev_snmp6/bond0
> >
> > It's not really a problem as it's working OK, just odd it's not
> there.
> >
> > --Russell
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Steve Thompson [mailto:smt at vgersoft.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, 17 January 2011 2:13 p.m.
> >> To: Smithies, Russell
> >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] nic bonding
> >>
> >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Smithies, Russell wrote:
> >>
> >> > I've just setup nic bonding on our server (DL585-G7 running Centos
> >> 5.5
> >> > x86_64) as detailed on the wiki:
> >> > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces and all
> seems
> >> > fine but from other "howto's" I've seen on the web, they're should
> be
> >> a
> >> > /proc/net/bond0/info
> >>
> >> That would be /proc/net/bonding/bond0
> >>
> >> -steve
> >
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