SOLUTION VERIFIED

• February 5 2014

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (All Versions)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (All Versions)

Issue

• Need to configure VLAN on bonded interface and a bridge on top of this VLAN tagged bonded interface.

Resolution

• Configure the interface configuration files as below:
  NOTE: In below example, physical interfaces are named as eth0 and eth1, bonded interface is named as bond0, VLAN over bond is named as bond0.402 and a bridge over this VLAN is named as br0.

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0-----------------------------------------DEVICE=eth0ONBOOT=yesNM_CONTROLLED=noMASTER=bond0SLAVE=yesHWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XXBOOTPROTO=noneUSERCTL=no/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1-----------------------------------------DEVICE=eth1ONBOOT=yesNM_CONTROLLED=noMASTER=bond0SLAVE=yesHWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XXBOOTPROTO=noneUSERCTL=no/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0-----------------------------------------DEVICE=bonde0ONBOOT=yesNM_CONTROLLED=noUSERCTL=noBOOTPROTO=noneBONDING_OPTS="mode=1 miimon=100"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.402----------------------------------------------DEVICE=bond0.402ONBOOT=yesNM_CONTROLLED=noBOOTPROTO=noneVLAN=yesBRIDGE=br0/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0----------------------------------------DEVICE=br0TYPE=BridgeBOOTPROTO=staticONBOOT=yesNM_CONTROLLED=noIPADDR=X.X.X.XNETMASK=X.X.X.XGATEWAY=X.X.X.X

• For RHEL5 , add below line to /etc/modprobe.conf so as to load module.

alias bond0 bonding

　　NOTE: RHEL6 does not need above step.

• Restart network service.

service network restart