A bonding's primary setting is not effective
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
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A bonding's option is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
BONDING_OPTS='mode=1 miimon=100 primary=eth0'
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