Bonding: Primary Interface not Getting Set (Doc ID 2196887.1)

Last updated on MAY 01, 2020

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Symptoms

While creating network bond(mode1:active-backup) with eth1 and eth2 as slaves, bonding is not coming up with primary interface as set in the configuration file.

#cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: None
Currently Active Slave: eth2
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 5000
Down Delay (ms): 5000

Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: 10000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: <MAC ID>
Slave queue ID: 0

Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: <MAC ID>
Slave queue ID: 0

Here the bond0 is created with currently active slave as eth2, but from the bonding configuration file the primary interface is eth1.

#cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0

DEVICE=bond0
USERCTL=no
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup miimon=100 downdelay=5000 updelay=5000 num_grat_arp=100 PRIMARY=eth1"
IPV6INIT=no
IPADDR=192.168.XXX.22
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.XX.0
BROADCAST=192.168.XXX.255
GATEWAY=192.168.XX.1

Cause

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