Why does not bond0 without IP address assigned sent arp after a VLAN is configured?

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Issue

  • Why does not bond0 without IP address assigned sent arp after a VLAN is configured?

/var/log/messages:

kernel: bonding: bond0: no route to arp_ip_target 10.1.1.1

Reproducer:

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no
BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 arp_interval=1000 arp_ip_target=10.1.1.1"
# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth1
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 0
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
ARP Polling Interval (ms): 1000
ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.1.1.1

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 15
Permanent HW addr: 52:54:00:64:ae:0f
Slave queue ID: 0
# vconfig add bond0 10

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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