Re: [LARTC] How to check an inactive slave in a bond?

2007-08-13 Thread olivier arsac
Thank you for this very complete answer. - Assuming I really have to implement some sort of inactive slave-link check. - Assuming it is acceptable to remove the inactive slave from the bound for the duration of the check. Could you help me check my script? It works well for me but as I'm

[LARTC] How to check an inactive slave in a bond?

2007-07-19 Thread olivier arsac
I'm using bonding in active-fallback mode to guarantee maximum availability on some critical servers. The mii mode is active so I can detect things like dead card and/or unplugged cable even on the inactive slave. But how do I check that the inactive slave is properly configured/connected to

Re: [LARTC] How to check an inactive slave in a bond?

2007-07-19 Thread Jay Vosburgh
olivier arsac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Scenario: your bond0 is running fine. it uses eth0 as active slave and eth2 as inactive slave (different cards/ different driver to be safe) some bozo reconfigures the switch port where your eth2 is plugged in and you don't notice it (the crucial point