Packet loss reported on inactive slave interface of a bond or team in RHEL 7

Issue

• An inactive bond or team slave interface is constantly reporting packet loss:

  $ cat proc/net/bonding/bond0 
  Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
  
  Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
  Primary Slave: None
  Currently Active Slave: enp17s0f0
  MII Status: up
  MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
  Up Delay (ms): 0
  Down Delay (ms): 0
  
  Slave Interface: enp17s0f0
  MII Status: up
  Speed: 10000 Mbps
  Duplex: full
  Link Failure Count: 0
  Permanent HW addr: 00:1f:f3:af:d3:f0
  Slave queue ID: 0
  
  Slave Interface: enp17s0f1
  MII Status: up
  Speed: 10000 Mbps
  Duplex: full
  Link Failure Count: 0
  Permanent HW addr: 00:1f:f3:af:d3:f1
  Slave queue ID: 0
  
  $ cat proc/net/dev
  Inter-|   Receive                                                |  Transmit
   face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
  enp17s0f1: 227951462 2529811    0 179623    0     0          0   1456759   145246    2243    0    0    0     0       0          0
  enp17s0f0: 269687421 2731681    0    0    0     0          0   1456811 53785569  650914    0    0    0     0       0          0
   bond0: 497638883 5261492    0 179623    0     0          0   2913570 53930815  653157    0    0    0     0       0          0
      lo: 135522679  594683    0    0    0     0          0         0 135522679  594683    0    0    0     0       0          0