A bonding's primary setting is not effective

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Issue

  • A bonding's primary setting is not effective.  How to fix this phenomenon?

     /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

BONDING_OPTS='mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth0'

     /proc/net/bonding/bond0

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None          <----- here
Currently Active Slave: eth3
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0

Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
  • A bonding's option is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

    BONDING_OPTS='mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth0'
    

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