Dear community,
I'm in trouble with Red Hat Server 5.8. After rebooting the server, I loose two interfaces used for bond2 (eth4 and eth5). I reboot twice the server but the result is always:
# service network restart
Shutting down interface bond0: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface bond1: [ OK ]
Shutting down interface bond2: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface bond0: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface bond1: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface bond2: tg3 device eth4 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
tg3 device eth5 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.
Previously I can seen the interfaces under:
# ls -l /sys/class/net/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:26 __tmp1276100603
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 __tmp1634735850
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:27 __tmp1960047012
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:26 __tmp493137858
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jul 4 11:23 bond0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jul 4 11:23 bond1
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jul 4 11:27 bond2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 4 11:23 bonding_masters
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 eth0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 eth1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 eth2
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 eth3
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 4 11:22 lo
# ifconfig -a
__tmp8945472 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:CE:46:A8:9F:99
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Memory:f7e80000-f7f00000
__tmp1734664809 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:CE:46:A8:9F:9B
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Memory:f7c80000-f7d00000
__tmp2039660177 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:CE:46:A8:9F:9A
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Memory:f7d80000-f7e00000
__tmp2121776098 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F4:CE:46:A8:9F:98
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:321718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:321718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:66682363 (63.5 MiB) TX bytes:66682363 (63.5 MiB)
Memory:f7f80000-f8000000
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0C
inet addr:10.97.11.43 Bcast:10.97.11.63 Mask:255.255.255.192
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:169118 (165.1 KiB) TX bytes:7684 (7.5 KiB)
bond1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0E
inet addr:10.97.11.135 Bcast:10.97.11.159 Mask:255.255.255.224
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1079 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:121607 (118.7 KiB) TX bytes:5458 (5.3 KiB)
bond2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.2.140 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.128
UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:509 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:86110 (84.0 KiB) TX bytes:7684 (7.5 KiB)
Interrupt:92 Memory:f6bf0000-f6c00000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0C
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:474 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:83008 (81.0 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:100 Memory:f6bc0000-f6bd0000
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0E
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:608 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:75 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:66094 (64.5 KiB) TX bytes:5458 (5.3 KiB)
Interrupt:92 Memory:f6b90000-f6ba0000
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr AC:16:2D:78:3F:0E
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:471 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:55513 (54.2 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:100 Memory:f6b60000-f6b70000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:321718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:321718 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:66682363 (63.5 MiB) TX bytes:66682363 (63.5 MiB)
Could you please help to restore the eth4 and eth5 ?
Thank you, Lucas
---------- Post updated at 05:52 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:00 AM ----------
DAMN! Solved! 
I missed HWADDR (MAC) config only on eth4 and eth5... Now tmp device are gone and bond2 is UP!
Sorry for wasting forum space, I hope this can be usefull to someone else, I guess HWADDR must be present on all interfaces! :rolleyes:
