Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual Loading the Bonding Driver, # lsmod grep bonding

6–Configuring NIC Functionality in the Converged Network Adapter Configuring the NIC in a Linux Environment

Table 6-4. Linux Bonding Driver Parameters (Continued)

Parameter	Unit	Description		Default	Allowed Values
Name				Value
use_carrier		Specifies MII/ETHTOOL ioctls	1		1–enables the use of
		or netif_carrier_ok() for use by			netif_carrier_ok()
		miimon to determine the link			0–enables use of MII/
		status. MII/ETHTOOL ioctls is
					ETHTOOL ioctls
		less efficient and uses a dep-
		recated calling sequence
		within the kernel. The
		netif_carrier_ok() relies on the
		device driver to maintain its
		state with netif_carrier_on/off.

Loading the Bonding Driver

In most RHEL 5 environments, the bonding driver is not loaded by default. Unless the bonding driver is loaded, bond interfaces using the QLogic adapter NIC function cannot be created.

To determine whether the bonding driver is loaded, enter the following command:

#lsmod grep bonding

If the command produces no output, the bonding driver is not loaded. If the output is similar to Figure 6-31, the bonding driver is already loaded.

Figure 6-31. Verifying that the Bonding Driver Is Loaded

To load the bonding driver, enter one of the following commands:

#modprobe -v bonding miimon = x

or

# modprobe -v bonding arp_interval=n arp_ip_target=yy.yy.yy.yy

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