In RHEL 6.3 a VLAN on a bond does not work anymore

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Following a yum update from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 to 6.3 the network no longer functions though it is showing as up.
  • Although all nic messages indicate everything should be up, the system is unreachable.
Jun 23 09:54:47 HOSTNAME kernel: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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Jun 23 09:54:47 HOSTNAME kernel: 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW filter on device bond0
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Jun 23 09:54:48 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth3
Jun 23 09:54:48 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth3
Jun 23 09:54:50 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth2
Jun 23 09:54:50 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth2
Jun 23 09:54:53 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth1
Jun 23 09:54:53 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth1
Jun 23 09:54:57 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: Removing slave eth0
Jun 23 09:54:57 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: Warning: the permanent HWaddr of eth0 - aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa - is still in use by bond0. Set the HWaddr of eth0 to a different address to avoid conflicts.
Jun 23 09:54:57 HOSTNAME kernel: bonding: bond0: releasing active interface eth0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • kernel-2.6.32-279.el6
  • Interfaces configured into a bond with VLAN subinterfaces

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