Interface eth1 failing to come up in a bond

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Issue

  • After inserting a network card into the server, eth1 is failing to come up in the bond.
# ip address
5: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

7: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2->6.5
  • mlx4_en

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