ethernet bonding in Redhat AS 4 64bit

[Neil Watson]

I've been attempting to bond two NICs together in an active-passive
mode.  I cannot do this reliably.  When I do get it working and run
"service network restart" without error, connectivity is permanently
dropped.  I think is has something to do with how the bonding module is
loaded.  I've duplicated this behaviour on two separate servers.

modprobe.conf lines:
alias bond0 bonding
options bond0 miimon=100 mode=1

ifcfg-bond0:
DEVICE=bond0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
BROADCAST=176.16.1.255
NETWORK=172.16.1.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=172.16.1.1
IPADDR=172.16.1.203

ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
ETHTOOL_OPTS="duplex full autoneg off"

ifcfg-eth1:
DEVICE=eth1
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
MASTER=bond0
SLAVE=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
ETHTOOL_OPTS="duplex full autoneg off"

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