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Abstract
Supported bonding modes for IBM virtual Ethernet device (ibmveth) and IBM virtual Network Interface Controller (ibmvnic).
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Linux Releases Affected
SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux Server 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8
IBM Systems Affected
All IBM POWER9™ systems
Description
The following bonding modes are supported for ibmveth and ibmvnic:
- ibmveth
- mode 1 (active-backup) with fail_over_mac = 1 (active) or fail_over_mac = 2 (follow)
- ibmvnic
- mode 1 (active-backup) with fail_over_mac = 1 (active) or fail_over_mac = 2 (follow)*
- mode 4 802.3ad (LACP), if only one logical port is configured for the physical port
*ibmvnic follows a client/server model. If the vNIC server is unavailable because of a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) crash, or by running the rmdev -l vnicserverX command, the vNIC client does not send a mac address change request to the vNIC server. An error message similar to the following message is displayed in the message log: "Error 5 setting MAC of old active slave".
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Document Information
Modified date:
11 February 2021
UID
ibm16208622