Network interfaces do not come up and ifconfig shows blank on RHEL5

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Issue

  • Network interfaces do not come up and ifconfig shows blank
  • ifconfig -a does not show second bonding device
  • ifup fails with error:
# ifup bond1
bond1: unknown interface: No such device

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Network bonding

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