John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I have a server with 4 NICS running CentOS 5.2. I have bonded the > interfaces together such that 'bond0' consists of eth0-3. This is not a > problem, and works fine. That is fine, just be sure not to have the bonding specific things in the sub interface, just have the IP/subnet/device name (bond0:1 etc). > For info, 'ifconfig' output shows: > > ============================================================= > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Somehow I doubt ifconfig reports your MAC address as xx:xx:xx.. You do realize that your MAC address is useless outside of your local layer 2 subnet right. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-September/064541.html nate