bond0 problem

[lazlow]

Hey Guys

Ok, working on bonding two nics/machine on two machines tied together by a 4port linksys router. If I boot with eth0/eth1 in "normal" mode and switch on the bond0, all is fine. If I boot with bond0 enabled I get the following:

bonding: bond0: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth0 failed! ALB mode requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the network device's interface is open
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0e.0 disabled
eth1: DSPCFG accepted after 0 usec.
eth1: link up.
eth1: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
bonding: bond0: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth1 failed! ALB mode requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the network device's interface is open
eth1: remaining active for wake-on-lan
eth1: DSPCFG accepted after 0 usec.
eth1: link up.
eth1: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability.
bonding: bond0: Error: dev_set_mac_address of dev eth1 failed! ALB mode requires that the base driver support setting the hw address also when the network device's interface is open
eth1: remaining active for wake-on-lan

Setup As:

DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
TYPE=Bonding
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
IPV6INIT=no

[lazlow]

modprobe.conf line:

alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 mode=balance-alb miimon=100 max_bonds=2

Anybody got any suggestions?

Thanks
Lazlow

[Thetargos]

Hmm... I may be completely wrong here, but are both NICs the same brand? Looking at the error, seems that you have to be able to set the MAC address by driver.

[lazlow]

No, they are different nics. If that was the problem why would I be able to set it up "live" and not on bootup?

lazlow