X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fnetworking%2Fbonding.txt;h=8d8b4e5ea184a26da6bfab62bed0f796ce16679a;hb=f18dd516d433d0b740aa8365d706f5ad47603449;hp=24d029455baadabc3acc398e3970ff8052e3ab1d;hpb=975f957dc408925805dd8f5aa4217b7eeea2d005;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 24d029455ba..8d8b4e5ea18 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ doing so is the same as described in the "Configuring Multiple Bonds Manually" section, below. NOTE: It has been observed that some Red Hat supplied kernels -are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-obonding1" +are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-o bond1" part). Attempts to pass that option to modprobe will produce an "Operation not permitted" error. This has been reported on some Fedora Core kernels, and has been seen on RHEL 4 as well. On kernels @@ -883,7 +883,8 @@ the above does not work, and the second bonding instance never sees its options. In that case, the second options line can be substituted as follows: -install bonding1 /sbin/modprobe bonding -obond1 mode=balance-alb miimon=50 +install bond1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bonding -o bond1 \ + mode=balance-alb miimon=50 This may be repeated any number of times, specifying a new and unique name in place of bond1 for each subsequent instance. @@ -944,7 +945,6 @@ bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4 - inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3573025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1643167 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 @@ -952,7 +952,6 @@ eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1080 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4 - inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3651769 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1643480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 @@ -1241,7 +1240,7 @@ traffic while still maintaining carrier on. If running SNMP agents, the bonding driver should be loaded before any network drivers participating in a bond. This requirement -is due to the the interface index (ipAdEntIfIndex) being associated to +is due to the interface index (ipAdEntIfIndex) being associated to the first interface found with a given IP address. That is, there is only one ipAdEntIfIndex for each IP address. For example, if eth0 and eth1 are slaves of bond0 and the driver for eth0 is loaded before the @@ -1937,7 +1936,7 @@ switches currently available support 802.3ad. If not explicitly configured (with ifconfig or ip link), the MAC address of the bonding device is taken from its first slave device. This MAC address is then passed to all following slaves and -remains persistent (even if the the first slave is removed) until the +remains persistent (even if the first slave is removed) until the bonding device is brought down or reconfigured. If you wish to change the MAC address, you can set it with