On May 13, 2012, at 12:23 PM, bob wrote: > On 5/13/2012 11:45 AM, aurfalien wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Read many posts on the subject. >> >> Using 802.3ad. >> >> Few problems; >> Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. >> Cannot resolve via DNS which is one of the hosts that I cannot ping, internal nor external DNS hosts. >> Unplugging the NICS and plugging them back in will then not allow pining if the default d=gateway. >> >> When cold booting it somewhat works, some hosts are pingable while others are not. >> >> When restarting the network service via /etc/init.d/network, nothing is pingable. >> >> Here are my configs; >> >> ifcfg-bond0 >> DEVICE=bond0 >> USERCTL=no >> BOOTPROTO=none >> ONBOOT=yes >> IPADDR=10.0.0.10 >> NETMASK=255.255.0.0 >> NETWORK=10.0.0.0 >> TYPE=Unknown >> IPV6INIT=no >> >> ifcfg-eth0 >> DEVICE=eth0 >> BOOTPROTO=none >> ONBOOT=yes >> MASTER=bond0 >> SLAVE=yes >> USERCTL=no >> >> ifcfg-eth1 >> DEVICE=eth1 >> BOOTPROTO=none >> ONBOOT=yes >> MASTER=bond0 >> SLAVE=yes >> USERCTL=no >> >> /etc/modprob.d/bonding.conf >> alias bond0 bonding >> options bond0 mode=5 miimon=100 >> >> Bonding worked great in Centos 5.x, not so well for me in Centos 6.2. >> >> My goal is to get this working under bridging for KVM, I can only imagine the nightmare seeing I can't get a simple bond to work! >> >> Any guidance is golden. >> >> - aurf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > I spent two months on bonding two nics inside a box to a bridge in the box. > There is a bug, very prominent in fedora bugzillas about it. > You cannot do it without some modification. Libvirt loses some vms, no > way to make it work that I know of > except for those suggested changes which I did not try. > > if you look in your libvirt logs you will see xml bond errors....and > thus impossible to do inside of the box. > this only applies if the bonded nics and bridge are all in the same box, > > also, the options should no longer go in bonding.conf, but in the bridge > file itself. > > in all my testing all vms worked except the one assigned vnet0, that > always got 'lost'... > however, any attempt by the vm to send a signal outside to the net, > would cause it to be found again.. > > this bug is not fixed in 6 or in latest fedora when i last > checked....there are self made patches in fedora bugzilla though. Hi Bob, WOW, ok cool. I will simply do 2 bridges and allocate some of my guests to either for a sort of manual load balancing. Good info to know. Really appreciate the feedback. - aurf