RedHat 5 VLANs and bonding

I have an HP blade with two NICs, connected to different switches in blade center. When using plain network, I've used to use bonding interface in mode 1 (failover) based on arping to some target. Here is an example of ifcfg-bondX:

BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 arp_interval=2000 arp_ip_target=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

This configuration solves uplink problems, switching to working path.

Requirements changed, and I need more VLANs on same interface. I've tryied to build VLAN's NIC and bond interface over them to achieve same solution. It is work, but not good; bonding interface switch interfaces very frequent. Googling internet shows that this solution even does not considered for some reason.

So I've enforced to use common solution, that does not cover uplink problem, but work.

Required software

# yum install -y vconfig

Configuration files

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
DEVICE=bond0
ONBOOT=yes
BONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=200 use_carrier=0"

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0   
DEVICE=eth0
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
HWADDR=00:26:55:1E:0A:72

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
DEVICE=eth1
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
HWADDR=00:26:55:1E:0A:6E

Files above configure active-backup bonding interface build from eth0 and eth1 intefaces. This configuration protect switch failure only (HP blade attached directly to switch), and uplink cut-off (if properly configured in switch). It is more than nothing.

Next files conifugre VLAN interfaces. Bolded text directly related to VLAN configuration. The NUMBERS are desired VLANIDs.

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.309
DEVICE=bond0.309
VLAN=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=102.168.1.10
GATEWAY=102.168.1.1

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.1  
DEVICE=bond0.1
VLAN=yes
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=192.168.2.10


Updated on Tue Dec 4 08:57:56 IST 2012 More documentations here