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,
Does anyone have bonding working under CentOS on a modern Proliant? What driver do you use?
I have recently set up bonding on RHEL4 using the BCM drivers with no problems. I would use the latest drivers available from HP - part of the PSP I believe.
I'm not sure the tg3 drivers are suitable for bonding - although somebody else may correct me here.
Hope this helps
Daveh
Does anyone have bonding working under CentOS on a modern Proliant? What driver do you use?
I have recently set up bonding on RHEL4 using the BCM drivers with no problems. I would use the latest drivers available from HP - part of the PSP I believe.
I'm not sure the tg3 drivers are suitable for bonding - although somebody else may correct me here.
We have some DL380 G3 servers. We are running with the tg3 drivers and using bonding and VLAN's. No problem with the tg3 driver.
Leo
On 6/6/06, Leo Arnts leo@arnts.org wrote:
We have some DL380 G3 servers. We are running with the tg3 drivers and using bonding and VLAN's. No problem with the tg3 driver.
Is it correct that I don't need to set up a trunk or worry about VLANs if all I want is active/backup bonding?
Are you getting 1000/Full on both interfaces? Did you leave it on autodetect on every end?
On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Leo Arnts wrote:
Does anyone have bonding working under CentOS on a modern Proliant? What driver do you use?
I have recently set up bonding on RHEL4 using the BCM drivers with no problems. I would use the latest drivers available from HP - part of the PSP I believe.
I'm not sure the tg3 drivers are suitable for bonding - although somebody else may correct me here.
We have some DL380 G3 servers. We are running with the tg3 drivers and using bonding and VLAN's. No problem with the tg3 driver.
Leo
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We're doing bonding with the tg3 driver as well, as Broadcom has EOL'd the BCM driver (http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/ faq_drivers.php#tg3). I went ahead and compiled an RPM of the newest version from Broadcom, as I was experiencing some flakiness with the included driver. No problems so far.
Michael Grinnell
Michael Grinnell wrote:
On Jun 6, 2006, at 1:45 PM, Leo Arnts wrote:
Does anyone have bonding working under CentOS on a modern Proliant? What driver do you use?
I have recently set up bonding on RHEL4 using the BCM drivers with no problems. I would use the latest drivers available from HP - part of the PSP I believe.
I'm not sure the tg3 drivers are suitable for bonding - although somebody else may correct me here.
We have some DL380 G3 servers. We are running with the tg3 drivers and using bonding and VLAN's. No problem with the tg3 driver.
Leo
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
We're doing bonding with the tg3 driver as well, as Broadcom has EOL'd the BCM driver (http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php#tg3). I went ahead and compiled an RPM of the newest version from Broadcom, as I was experiencing some flakiness with the included driver. No problems so far.
Michael Grinnell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
I do bonding with the driver hp supplies:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/24570.html
I always install everything from this package as it includes hardware management tools for Proliant servers.
My bonding works fine with the supplied driver.
Bgrds, Finnur
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