Hi, could you describe in more detail? --On 4. Juli 2008 13:11:45 -0700 Art Age Software <artagesw at gmail.com> wrote: - snip - > Changing to this eliminates the errors, but bond1 ignores the different > options: What exactly is ignored? The options do not look much different. > > alias bond0 bonding > options bond0 -o bond0 miimon=100 mode=active-backup primary=eth0 > max_bonds=1 alias bond1 bonding > options bond1 -o bond1 miimon=100 mode=active-backup primary=eth2 > max_bonds=1 > "NOTE: It has been observed that some Red Hat supplied kernels are > apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-o bond1" > part). Did you try without renaming? I do not use it, but it works nonetheless: alias bond0 bonding options bond0 mode=2 alias bond1 bonding options bond1 mode=2 Dirk