'network restart' of a bond of infiniband slaves results in output 'SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument'
Issue
To take a bond of infiniband interfaces into service we execute service network restart, this results in this error:
Shutting down interface bond0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface bond0: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface bond1: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
[ OK ]
When bringing up the interfaces bevore executing the network restart then the error message does not appear:
# ifup bond1
# ifup ib0
# ifup ib1
# ifdown bond1
# ifup bond1
# /etc/init.d/network restart
[ OK ]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6
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