Bonding does not work after updating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Issue
When a bonding module is loaded, you may see the following message and bonding is down.
# modprobe bonding
FATAL: Error inserting bonding (/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.6.1.el5/kernel/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
# dmesg | grep bond
bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_build_skb
bonding: Unknown symbol in6_dev_finish_destroy
bonding: Unknown symbol ndisc_send_skb
bonding: Unknown symbol unregister_inet6addr_notifier
bonding: Unknown symbol register_inet6addr_notifier
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
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