when creating multiple bonding devices one of the physical device always reports link down

Issue

• when creating multiple bonding devices one of the physical device always reports link down

  [tumeya@olive wrx0530march-183646]$ more proc/net/bonding/bond0
  Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)
  
  Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
  Primary Slave: None
  Currently Active Slave: eth0
  MII Status: up
  MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
  Up Delay (ms): 0
  Down Delay (ms): 0
  ARP Polling Interval (ms): 100
  ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 16.148.240.1
  
  Slave Interface: eth0
  MII Status: up
  Link Failure Count: 2
  Permanent HW addr: 00:25:b3:a5:59:a2
  
  Slave Interface: eth1
  MII Status: up
  Link Failure Count: 1
  Permanent HW addr: 00:25:b3:a5:59:a4
  [tumeya@olive wrx0530march-183646]$ more proc/net/bonding/bond1
  Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)
  
  Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
  Primary Slave: None
  Currently Active Slave: eth4
  MII Status: up
  MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
  Up Delay (ms): 0
  Down Delay (ms): 0
  ARP Polling Interval (ms): 100
  ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2
  
  Slave Interface: eth4
  MII Status: up
  Link Failure Count: 3
  Permanent HW addr: 00:22:64:0f:d3:78
  
  Slave Interface: eth5
  MII Status: down
  Link Failure Count: 12
  Permanent HW addr: 00:22:64:0f:d3:7c