On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:04 AM, Martin Langhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.langhoff@gmail.com">martin.langhoff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Anna, what's your NIC? Ideally, we want to know the marketing<br>
make/name/model and what lspci reports for it. Perhaps I can get my<br>
hands on the same hw you have.<br></blockquote><div> <br>I'm currently testing on two machines. They're both circa 2003 Dells - GX270 P4's.<br><br>Server A<br>02:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)<br>
02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)<br><br>Server B<br>01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)<br>01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)<br>
<br>Of course the Intel NICs are the onboard ones. I found the other two in my "junkyard," so more than likely they're circa 2000.<br><br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
What's your other NIC? If you run xs-swapnics (and swap the cables<br>
too), do things work better with the bonding configuration we're<br>
shipping?<br></blockquote></div><br>I tried xs-swapnics on both boxes during my first installation attempts, so I know all four have had the different roles at some point. I've moved the D-Link to different slots in Server A when it was assigned the eth1 role. I've tried using different cables; tried with a hub and without; and tried getting an IP with an AP, a Fedora Desktop, and an Ubuntu desktop. I think I've been rather thorough.<br>
<br>So based on all that trial and error and messing around, I think I can definitively report that I can not get bonding to work with any of my hardware.<br><br>I sure hope it's not an issue with the Dell GX270, because our deployment got hold of a couple dozen of them to use as XS's.<br>
<br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham<br>