25 Mar
2004
25 Mar
'04
15:54
Jose Luis, You are right. When I checked ifconfig it shows the same MAC address for both cards. Apparently it does this automatically when you ifenslave the second adapter.
Hello,
I've read that ethernet bonding takes place at a low (layer 2) TCP level (before IP) so to work it needs the same MAC address on the slave cards. According to the Linux kernel documentation the bonding driver sets the MAC address on the slave interfaces but that does not work on my system so I have to set it manually. The file Documentation/networking/bonding.txt contains some info about the module options and on the supported network switches.
- Jose Luis