Why does the bonding option `mode=6` not working in `PXE` as well as in `Kickstart` installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4?

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Issue

  • Need to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 using Kickstart/PXE method. Following are the PXE kernel comandline parameters.
APPEND initrd=/path/to/initrd.img sshd=1 ip=dhcp ksdevice=bond0 ks=<path_to_ks> bond=bond0:eth0,eth1:mode=6,miimon=100

But anaconda fails to download the kickstart file and NetworkManager awaits for bringing up bond0 all the time.

  • When its done with the kickstart file with the following network line, still the same issue happens.
network --onboot=yes --device bond0 --bootproto dhcp --bondopts mode=6,miimon=100 --bondslaves eth0,eth1
  • Why mode=6 is not working? Is this a bug? Is there any workaround for the same?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
  • anaconda and NetworkManager
  • Bonding with kickstart/PXE in mode=6/balance-alb mode

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