There is some possible race mentioned in the examples/readme of ifenslave. Basically the suggested way is to have no slaves defined in the bonding definition but add definitions for the slaves. Like
auto bond0 iface bond0 inet static ... bond-slaves none ... auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual bond-master bond0 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet manual bond-master bond0 Has that been tried? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/688703 Title: [lucid] netxen_nic driver and ethernet bonding broken at boot time To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/688703/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
