netdev - Re: bonding can't change to another slave if you ifdown the active slave

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Message-ID: <4D754AD6.30901@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:15:02 +0100
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To:	Weiping Pan <panweiping3@...il.com>
CC:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Linda Wang <lwang@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: bonding can't change to another slave if you ifdown the active
 slave

Le 07/03/2011 04:13, Weiping Pan a écrit :
> On 03/05/2011 09:49 PM, Nicolas de Pesloüan wrote:
>> Le 05/03/2011 03:53, Andy Gospodarek a écrit :
>>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 10:15:17AM +0800, Weiping Pan wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing some Linux bonding driver test, and I find a problem in
>>>> balance-rr mode.
>>>> That's it can't change to another slave if you ifdown the active slave.
>>>> Any comments are warmly welcomed!
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> Weiping Pan
>>>>
>>>> My host is Fedora 14, and I install VirtualBox (4.0.2), and enable 4
>>>> nics for the guest system.
>>>
>>> Does this mean you are passing 4 NICs from your host to your guest
>>> (maybe via direct pci-device assignment to the guest) or are you
>>> creating 4 virtual devices on the host that are in a bridge group on the
>>> host?
>>
>> VirtualBox does not allow assignment of pci-device to the guest. The
>> network interfaces on the guest are pure virtual one, with several
>> modes available. In order to help you trouble shooting this problem,
>> we need to know the mode form each of the virtual interfaces. Possible
>> modes are NAT, bridged, internal-network, and host-only-network.
>>
>> Please provide the output of the following command:
>>
>> VBoxManage showvminfo <your-vm-uuid> | grep ^NIC
>>
>> To display your vm uuid, use the following command:
>>
>> VBoxManage list vms
> [root@...alhost ~]# VBoxManage showvminfo
> 67b83c47-0ee2-46bc-b0ff-e0eb43edc1c2 |grep ^NIC
> NIC 1: MAC: 0800270481A8, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable
> connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0
> Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> NIC 2: MAC: 08002778F641, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable
> connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0
> Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> NIC 3: MAC: 080027C408BA, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable
> connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0
> Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> NIC 4: MAC: 080027DB339A, Attachment: Bridged Interface 'eth0', Cable
> connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: 82540EM, Reported speed: 0
> Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> NIC 5: disabled
> NIC 6: disabled
> NIC 7: disabled
> NIC 8: disabled
>
> And when guest starts, i find that:
> NIC 1: eth7
> NIC 2: eth6
> NIC 3: eth9
> NIC 4: eth8

Would you mind testing with "Host-only Interface 'vboxnet0'", instead of "Bridged Interface 'eth0'"?

All the bonding tests I do use this setup and the link failure detection work well.

	Nicolas.
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