[olug] RE: Ethernet Bonding

[gregory at r3g.net]

Does the fact that the RX packets for bond0 are the sum of eth0 and eth1? 

Not sure if this will help, but here is my IFCONFIG -A:

bond0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:43:58:E1:42
          inet addr:1.1.1.253  Bcast:1.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:11658 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10307 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:11 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1118488 (1.0 Mb)  TX bytes:1662436 (1.5 Mb)

bond1     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
          inet addr:1.1.1.253  Bcast:1.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:43:58:E1:42
          inet addr:1.1.1.253  Bcast:1.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:43ff:fe58:e142/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10528 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10301 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:11 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1046168 (1021.6 Kb)  TX bytes:1661952 (1.5 Mb)
          Interrupt:16

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:43:58:E1:42
          inet addr:1.1.1.253  Bcast:1.1.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::211:43ff:fe58:e142/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1130 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:72320 (70.6 Kb)  TX bytes:484 (484.0 b)
          Interrupt:17

Gregory W Zill, MBA

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