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Re: [Xen-users] Bonded interfaces with trunk and iscsi SAN

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Donny Brooks <dbrooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> The only thing on that vlan is the SAN. Now that I think about it the
>>> windows machine is set to a /24 on each interface. So it may be that the
>>> SAN
>>> is set for /24 instead of /16. Now just to figure out how to have 4
>>> "interfaces" each with a /24 subnet...... hmmmm. :)
>>
>> That's easy. ifcfg-br20:1, ifcfg-br20:2, etc. :D
>>
>
> I think it is getting late in the day.... I added the ifcfg-br20:1/2/3/4
> files with the contents as follows:
>
> [root@xen-test network-scripts]# cat ifcfg-br20\:*
> DEVICE=br20:1
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=192.168.130.53
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.130.0
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> DEVICE=br20:2
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=192.168.131.53
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.131.0
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> DEVICE=br20:3
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=192.168.132.53
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.132.0
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> DEVICE=br20:4
> TYPE=Bridge
> BOOTPROTO=static
> IPADDR=192.168.133.53
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.133.0
> ONBOOT=yes
>
> and when I try to ifup the first interface I get this......
>
> [root@xen-test network-scripts]# ifup br20:1
> Bridge support not available in this kernel
>
>
> How is bridge support not available in the kernel when it is bridges I am
> working with already? I think I will take a step away from this for a bit
> and come back to it tomorrow.


Apparently when you put "TYPE=Bridge", it decides to always create a
bridge with that name (RHEL6 actually ALLOWS you to have a bridge
named "br0:1"). Removing "TYPE=Bridge" should make it work as
expected.

-- 
Fajar

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