Hello,
Does anyone have bonding working under CentOS on a modern Proliant? What driver do you use?
My setup: Centos x86_64 4.3 fully patched on a Proliant DL380 G4. 2 built-in NICs: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) Using the tg3 driver that came with the OS.
I'm trying to set up bonding between the 2 built-in Broadcom NICs in active-backup mode with each NIC going to a separate switch.
When I just connect eth0 to a gig port on a switch, both sides on auto/auto, everything is peachy. But when I fire up the bonding, the 2 NICs seem to fail to get a link. The switch sees the ports as up/up, but sometime 1000/full, sometimes 100/half. I've tried hard-setting both sides to 1000/full, using ethtool on the server, no link.
Thanks,