On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Tom H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> I've got an SL 6 setup to deal with which I inherited, with hosts that
>> only have two NIC's, need to be on three VLAN's, and need to run KVM
>> virtual servers. 9Actually, they may wind up as our favorite upstream
>> vendor's distribution, but I'm working with what I have now.)
>>
>> NetworkManager, of course, remains the utterly useless kludge that it
>> always has been as far as pair bonding is concerned. I've got the
>> VLAN's working on toop of the pair bonds by disabling NetworkManager,
>> setting up bond0 as a bonded pair of eth0 and eth1, and adding virtual
>> ports called bond0.vlan1, bond0.vlan2, etc., and adding the "VLAN=yes"
>> to ifcfg-bond0.vlan1, ifcfg-bond0.vlan2, etc.
>>
>> No problem so far. But now I need to to bridged ports for KVM, and I'm
>> trying to assemble the necessary bits. Do I just need to say "don't do
>> the VLAN's", or does someone have a graceful set of options for doing
>> KVM briding *on top of * bonded ports doing VLAN's?
>
> I've never had to layer all of these but my suggestion'd be:
>
>
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth{0,1}
> BOOTPROTO="none"
> DEVICE="eth{0,1}"
> MASTER="bond0"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> SLAVE="yes"
>
>
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0
> BONDING_OPTS="mode=... [...]"
> BOOTPROTO="none"
> BRIDGE="br0"
> DEVICE="bond0"
> ONBOOT="no"
>
>
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0
> BOOTPROTO="none"
> [DELAY="0"]
> DEVICE="br0"
> ONBOOT="no"
> [STP="on|off"]
> TYPE="Bridge"
>
>
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vlan9
> BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ## for simplicity on this list
> DEVICE="vlan9"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> PHYSDEV="br0"
> VLAN="yes"
> VLAN_NAME_TYPE="VLAN_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD"
>
> or
>
> $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0.9
> BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
> DEVICE="br0.9"
> ONBOOT="yes"
> VLAN="yes"
> VLAN_NAME_TYPE="DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD"

Looking at another post in this thread and the RH documentation, it
seems that it should be 'ONBOOT="yes"' everywhere. I'm surprised
because I've used ONBOOT="no" in the past but...