Hi, --On 5. Juli 2008 09:45:16 -0700 Art Age Software <artagesw at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> could you describe in more detail? >>> What exactly is ignored? The options do not look much different. > > As I said, I am trying to set a different primary interface for each > bond: eth0 for bond0, and eth2 for bond1. Does the second bonding interface have no primary interface, then? What exactly happens? > >>> 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 > > You are setting identical options for both bonds. This masks the fact > that your second options line is ignored and essentially does nothing. > Try changing an option on bond1 (eg. set a different mode or a > different miimon value), and I think you will see that it is ignored. I had tested different setups during conception phase and had different results. Dirk