Active-Backup (mode 1) bonding does not fail-over successfully in a blade environment

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Issue

  • When using mode 1 bonding in a blade environment the bond does not fail-over successfully.
  • Which is better, miimon or arp monitoring, for mode 1 bonding in a blade environment?
  • In VM guest with NICs connected to two vSwitches link is not reported down when vSwitch is down or port is off

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
  • System hardware in blade chassis
  • Virtual Environment with Hyper-v hypervisors

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