[CentOS] how does one remove bond1?

Hi List,

We're using bonding to create bond0 with 2 NICs, and noticing that CentOS 5 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 (and presumably older) creates bond1 as well.

I'd like to remove bond1 from the system, so that our monitoring scripts don't pick it up, except for those machines that actually do have a bond1.

So... how does one remove bond1?

Thanks! Misc info below of configuration and what doesn't work.

best, Jeff

% cat /etc/modprobe.conf | grep bond alias bond0 bonding options bond0 max_bonds=2 miimon=100 mode=1

% find /etc/ -iname "*bond1*" | wc -l 0

% grep -r bond1 /etc/ 2> /dev/null | wc -l 0

% cat /sys/class/net/bonding_masters bond0 bond1

% echo "bond0" > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters -bash: echo: write error: Operation not permitted

% id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) ...