It dos work with RHEL3. In modules.conf you just need
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 -o bonding0
alias bond1 bonding
options bond1 -o bonding1
You can add your mode and mii_mon and such on the options lines. It
does work I've used it.
-Eric
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 09:40 -0400, Florin Malita wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:11:56 -0700
> Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Florin Malita <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [...]
> > >How can you load a module multiple times on _any_ distro?
> >
> > modprobe -obond0 bonding mode=your-favorite-mode
> > modprobe -obond1 bonding mode=some-other-mode
> >
> > and so on. This is in the modprobe man page, and is described
> > in the bonding documentation (found in the kernel documentation or at
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding). It is admittedly somewhat
> > grotty, but it works.
>
> OK, I see this capability has been in module-init-tools since the 0.8
> days. Doesn't apply to any 2.4/modutils based system tough.
>
> >
> > >Not being able to set a (different) preferred
> > >interface/primary for each bond device makes it unacceptable for
> > >deployment in our environment.
> >
> > How are you configuring bonding? The current SuSE distros, for
> > example, will do the multiple module load stuff automatically in the
> > sysconfig scripts. This is described in the current bonding
> > documentation.
>
> Our systems are RHEL3 based so unfortunately the naming trick above
> doesn't work.
>
> But it does work on RHEL4 so admittedly, having this workaround
> available for recent distros removes the urgency for a fix.
>
> Thanks
> Florin
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> SF.Net email is sponsored by:
> Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server.
> Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very
> own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php
> _______________________________________________
> Bonding-devel mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bonding-devel
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
| |
 |