[CentOS] Bonding and network cards

Tue Dec 2 19:59:43 UTC 2008
David Hrbáč <hrbac.conf at seznam.cz>

Ralph Angenendt napsal(a):
> That is strange. But you shouldn't be needing mii, use_carrier should be
> working with modern cards - if they come up at once.
> 
> I have bonding on 2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T where the
> card takes so long to come up that the bonding driver assumes the wrong
> link mode (100baseT instead of 1000baseT).
> 
> But those cards do work with miimon (which uses miitool and/or ethtool).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ralph

Well, bonding's not working for me with r8169.
David