The server issues a bonding warning message to enable miimon or arp monitoring, even though it is configured

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The following warning message is seen when the network service starts. Is it a problem?
bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link failures! see bonding.txt for details.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • bonding

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