SOLUTION VERIFIED
- February 5 2014 KB340153
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (All Versions)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (All Versions)
Issue
- Need to configure VLAN on bonded interface and a bridge on top of this VLAN tagged bonded interface.
Resolution
- Configure the interface configuration files as below:
NOTE: In below example, physical interfaces are named aseth0andeth1, bonded interface is named asbond0, VLAN over bond is named asbond0.402and a bridge over this VLAN is named asbr0.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
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DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
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DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
BOOTPROTO=none
USERCTL=no /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
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DEVICE=bonde0
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=100" /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.402
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DEVICE=bond0.402
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=none
VLAN=yes
BRIDGE=br0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
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DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
IPADDR=X.X.X.X
NETMASK=X.X.X.X
GATEWAY=X.X.X.X
- For RHEL5 , add below line to
/etc/modprobe.confso as to load module.
alias bond0 bonding
NOTE: RHEL6 does not need above step.
- Restart network service.
service network restart