Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | [Patch] bonding.txt documentation patch | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:49:26 +0100 |
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diff -Nurd linux-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt linux-2.6.9-mrw/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt - --- linux-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 2004-10-18 22:53:45.000000000 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.9-mrw/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 2004-11-02 09:48:05.831738136 +0000 @@ -418,17 +418,27 @@ driver multiple times allows each instance of the driver to have differing options.
+Note: 2.6 kernel modules are capable of being loaded multiple times without +being explicitly loaded twice. The bonding.o driver however, defaults to +only allowing you to load it once, unless you use the max_bonds parameter. +Using "-o bonding1" is depreciated for 2.6 kernels. + For example, to configure two bonding interfaces, one with mii link monitoring performed every 100 milliseconds, and one with ARP link - -monitoring performed every 200 milliseconds, the /etc/conf.modules should +monitoring performed every 200 milliseconds, the /etc/modprobe.conf should resemble the following:
alias bond0 bonding alias bond1 bonding
+# For Kernel 2.4 (/etc/modules.conf or conf.modules): options bond0 miimon=100 options bond1 -o bonding1 arp_interval=200 arp_ip_target=10.0.0.1
+# for Kernel 2.6: +options bond0 miimon=100 max_bonds=2 +options bond1 arp_interval=200 arp_ip_target=10.0.0.1 + Configuring Multiple ARP Targets ================================
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