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From: Mark Watts <m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Patch] bonding.txt documentation patch
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 10:49:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200411020949.26586.m.watts@eris.qinetiq.com> (raw)

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diff -Nurd linux-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 
linux-2.6.9-mrw/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
- --- linux-2.6.9/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt    2004-10-18 
22:53:45.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.9-mrw/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt        2004-11-02 
09:48:05.831738136 +0000
@@ -418,17 +418,27 @@
 driver multiple times allows each instance of the driver to have differing
 options.

+Note: 2.6 kernel modules are capable of being loaded multiple times without
+being explicitly loaded twice. The bonding.o driver however, defaults to
+only allowing you to load it once, unless you use the max_bonds parameter.
+Using "-o bonding1" is depreciated for 2.6 kernels.
+
 For example, to configure two bonding interfaces, one with mii link
 monitoring performed every 100 milliseconds, and one with ARP link
- -monitoring performed every 200 milliseconds, the /etc/conf.modules should
+monitoring performed every 200 milliseconds, the /etc/modprobe.conf should
 resemble the following:

 alias bond0 bonding
 alias bond1 bonding

+# For Kernel 2.4 (/etc/modules.conf or conf.modules):
 options bond0 miimon=100
 options bond1 -o bonding1 arp_interval=200 arp_ip_target=10.0.0.1

+# for Kernel 2.6:
+options bond0 miimon=100 max_bonds=2
+options bond1 arp_interval=200 arp_ip_target=10.0.0.1
+
 Configuring Multiple ARP Targets
 ================================


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Mark Watts
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