<div dir="ltr">Hey guys
<div><br></div><div>Any one had experience doing bonded ethernet on Debian</div><div><div>I have read a stack of Debian/Ubuntu/Red Hat Howtos and manuals</div></div><div><br></div><div>*Specically balance-rr and or active-backup mode</div><div><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html">http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/debian-ubuntu-teaming-aggregating-multiple-network-connections.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am using two interfaces on an Intel dual gigabit nic pci-e card 82571EB</div><div><br></div><div>A couple of things:</div><div><br></div><div>my on board Ethernet(the one eth0 I'm not bonding) seems to get confused with the bonded ones on the Intel pci-e card eth1 and eth2</div><div><br></div><div>I have tried both balance-rr and active-backup mode and when I unplug a network cable both interfaces on bond0 seem to go down of line(then I do /etc/init.d/networking restart</div><div><br></div><div>modprobe looks fine, kernel messages are shown in /var/log/messages and I can see the state changes in /proc/net/bonding/bond0</div><div><br></div><div>Also I have set up /etc/modprobe.d/bonding.conf and /etc/network/interfaces with the same modes</div><div><br></div><div>I might be missing something obvious or not correct</div><div><br></div><div>Any help or comments would be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Paul</div></div>