[CentOS] oops, or how to bring a datacenter router down with one setting

Fri Feb 10 14:02:46 UTC 2012
Janez Kosmrlj <postnalista at googlemail.com>

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.
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