JohnS wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the >> corresponding disabling of hardware acceleration). Maybe the real issue is that >> something accidentally disabled it and you now only work when tcpdump >> re-enables it. I'm not sure how this is supposed to be managed atomically when >> multiple programs may manipulate it and it needs to be propagated across >> multiple bonded nics, but maybe something went wrong there. At least some >> things log the change so maybe you can get a hint about when it was turned on >> and off. > --- > > Check out /proc/net/bonding/bond/YOUR_BOND. Make sure your slave IDs > are the same as in aggregator ID. If not it will cause the problem your > having. Bad NIC hardware also it's failing over for a reason as the log > showed. > Okay, I'll take a look tomorrow when I get in to work.