Tom - Just a heads up that I can reproduce this in my environment: [root at server ~]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0 (October 7, 2008) Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin) MII Status: down MII Polling Interval (ms): 0 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 [root at server network-scripts]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond2 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0 (October 7, 2008) Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin) MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 0 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Slave Interface: eth0 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX Andrew On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Tom Georgoulias <tomg at mcclatchyinteractive.com> wrote: > I'm running into a situation where a bogus bonded interface named > "bond0" is being created, in addition to the desired "bond2" interface. > Can anyone confirm this? Anyone know why it's happening or what I do > to get rid of it? I wanted to start my numbering scheme at 2 instead of > 0, which I didn't think would be a problem. > > As you can see, I have no reference to bond0 in any of my configs: > > # grep bond /etc/modprobe.conf > alias bond2 bonding > > # ifconfig -a | grep bond > bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 > bond2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond2 > DEVICE=bond2 > IPADDR=XXXXXXXXX > NETMASK=XXXXXXXX > NETWORK=XXXXXXXXX > USERCTL=no > BOOTPROTO=none > ONBOOT=yes > BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=100" > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth2 > DEVICE=eth2 > MASTER=bond2 > SLAVE=yes > HWADDR=XXXXXXXXXXXX > ONBOOT=yes > BOOTPROTO=none > USERCTL=no > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth3 > DEVICE=eth3 > MASTER=bond2 > SLAVE=yes > HWADDR=XXXXXXXXXX > ONBOOT=yes > BOOTPROTO=none > USERCTL=no > > The bond0 interface isn't doing any harm, as far as I can tell, except > adding bogus data to ifconfig output and extra, useless charts in our > system performance monitoring tools. > > # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 > Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0 (October 7, 2008) > > Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin) > MII Status: down > MII Polling Interval (ms): 0 > Up Delay (ms): 0 > Down Delay (ms): 0 > > # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond2 > Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0 (October 7, 2008) > > Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) > Primary Slave: None > Currently Active Slave: eth2 > MII Status: up > MII Polling Interval (ms): 100 > Up Delay (ms): 0 > Down Delay (ms): 0 > > Slave Interface: eth2 > MII Status: up > Link Failure Count: 0 > Permanent HW addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX > > Slave Interface: eth3 > MII Status: up > Link Failure Count: 0 > Permanent HW addr: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX > > Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > Tom > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >