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Author: David Ramsden
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Set bond mode, when bonding is compiled in to the kernel?
Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,


Hi Bob,

>
> On Thu, Mar 12 at 02:25, David Ramsden wrote:
> ...

[snip]
>>
>> But since I've got no module support and bonding is compiled in to the
>> kernel, how can I specify the bonding options such as the bond mode?
>> This is running on Ubuntu Hardy LTS which doesn't seem to support the
>> "bond-mode" stanza in interfaces(5).
>
> I've not used this specific module/kernel/distro but the usual mechanism
> is to pass the parameters in the kernel boot string/command. The syntax
> is <module>.<param>=<value> so for the above example I think would need
> to add the following to the kernel boot info.
>
>     bonding.bonding bonding.mode=6 bonding.miimon=100

>
> Exactly how to do this depends on which bootstrap you're using and what
> tools you use to configure it.


This did the trick, thank you.

Regards,
David.
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