Packet loss reported on inactive slave interface of a bond or team in RHEL 7
Issue
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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
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Bonding
- Teaming
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