[CentOS] Bonding question - active-backup

Tue Jun 24 10:08:31 UTC 2008
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

Tom Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have bonding working and i can failover between active (eth0) and 
> backup (eth1) without issue, however is there a way to automatically 
> fail back to eth0 when this link once again becomes available?
> 
> I understand this may be undesirable due to flapping etc but i just 
> wonder if its possible.

I believe you can do this with the 'primary' option to the bonding 
module - in your case 'primary=eth0'

James Pearson