[ILUG] Japanese Bonding

[Kevin Brennan]

I am setting up bonding (using mode 802.3ad) and am getting the following
error on ifup bond0. Distro is whitebox respin 1 (that's RHES3 clone). The
strange thing is bonding seems to work fine (ie. can pull cables and keep
connection) even though ip's are not assigned (not in the ifconfig printout
for eth0/eth1). I wonder has anybody out there had similar. Box is a DELL
poweredge 1750 these come with twin GB Broadcom NetXtreme 5704 NIC's (using
tg3 module). The only reference I could find to similar was on a Japanese HP
support page (any japanese speakers out there) -
http://www1.jpn.hp.com/products/software/oe/linux/support/doc/option/nic/bon
ding_rhel_diff.html.

>ifup bond0 2> file
file
Something broke getting the master's IP address: Cannot assign requested
address.
Something broke getting the master's destination address: Cannot assign
requested address.
Something broke getting the master's broadcast address: Cannot assign
requested address.
Something broke getting the master's netmask: Cannot assign requested
address.
Something broke setting the slave's address: Invalid argument.
Error setting the slave (eth0) with SIOCSIFDSTADDR: Invalid argument.
Something broke setting the slave (eth0) broadcast address: Invalid
argument.
Something broke setting the slave (eth0) netmask: Invalid argument.
Something broke getting the master's IP address: Cannot assign requested
address.
Something broke getting the master's destination address: Cannot assign
requested address.
Something broke getting the master's broadcast address: Cannot assign
requested address.
Something broke getting the master's netmask: Cannot assign requested
address.
Something broke setting the slave's address: Invalid argument.
Error setting the slave (eth1) with SIOCSIFDSTADDR: Invalid argument.
Something broke setting the slave (eth1) broadcast address: Invalid
argument.
Something broke setting the slave (eth1) netmask: Invalid argument.

contents of ifcfg-bond0
# Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
DEVICE=bond0
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=213.168.XXX.XXX
IPADDR=213.168.XXX.XXX
NETMASK=255.255.XXX.XXX
NETWORK=213.168.XXX.XXX
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no

contents of ifcfg-eth0
# Broadcom Corporation|NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
USERCTL=no