[CentOS] NIC bonding on modern Proliants

Tue Jun 6 20:41:44 UTC 2006
Michael Grinnell <grinnell at american.edu>

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