bonding reports unknown speed and duplex
Issue
- We are seeing via
ip addr show
andethtool eth2
andethtool eth3
no issues but when we run the commandcat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
the status is reporting "unknown speed" and duplex for eth2 and eth3.
# ip addr show
2: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> master bond0 state UP
3: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> master bond0 state UP
8: bond1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> state UP
# ethtool eth2
Settings for eth2:
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Link detected: yes
# ethtool eth3
Settings for eth3:
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Link detected: yes
# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Slave Interface: eth3
Speed: Unknown
Duplex: Unknown
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 with
kernel-2.6.32-573.26.1.el6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 with
kernel-2.6.32-642.13.1.el6
- Bonding
- Broadcom NetXtreme network interface using
tg3
driver
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