Bonding does not work after updating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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