i have several centos 5.x servers with bonding enabled. And none of them have any problems. I used this tutorial: http://www.howtoforge.com/network_card_bonding_centos I use mode=6. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com> wrote: > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote > /Fri Feb 10 06:47:22 EST 2012/ > > On 02/10/2012 12:54 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > >/ so I gave up on bonding. > />/ I found about 300 posts showing eth0 and eth1 both pointing to br0 > (bridge) > />/ as interfaces. > />/ I followed them correctly, or so I thought. > />/ I pointed both ethx to the bridge, restarted network and bam...!!! > / > Bonding and bridging are completely different things. If you want to start > bonding then you should first start with simply bonding the two interfaces > and only once you got that going add the bridge and then add the bond0 > device to it. > > Regards, > Dennis > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Yea, I gave up on bonding, ended up just using eth1. But every tutorial > I found had added eth0 and eth1 as interfaces to br0, thus sharing the > bridge so to speak. > All the tutorials were for debian though, all the centos ones ended up > pointing each eth to a different cridge (br0 and br1) > So I tried it....bam, took down router in less than a second. > > I did not add a domain= setting in the bridge though. With network > manager off completely I thought I would not need too. > Looking at the resolv.conf it was overwritten anyway and since no domain > was listed, it said > "search belkin" > search belkin > > I assume that was the datacenters router.... > > I was not bonding at this time. I am wondering though why the network > manager overwrites resolv.conf if NM is off, all ifcfg files say > nm_controlled=no, and chkconfig NetworkManager off was run. > > It is not that way on my 5.x, but I guess things change. I wonder if > that was messing my bond experiment up too without me knowing it. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >