[CentOS] NIC bonding on modern Proliants

Finnur Örn Guðmundsson finnzi at finnzi.com
Tue Jun 6 20:45:52 UTC 2006


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
>>
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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
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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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