Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I have setup NIC bonding with DRBD successfully but we need to try to reduce the amount of switch ports required as we need to remotely deploy several clusters. We have 2 bonded nics, total of 4 NICs/cables plus one for iLo. So we have 6 that must go into the switch (3 from each cluster) but want to avoid having those additional cables for drbd and that bond going into the switch. We decided to try and connect the drbd resources together using that bond0 channel but using crossover cables instead of going through the switch. No joy. Cannot ping, no communications, destination on trace route shows as the 169.* hardware failure address... We have all GB NICs and the cables are GB crossover. We have tried mode-1, mode-5, and mode-6 which all claim to work without needing special switch configurations. Is there any way to connect a bonded NIC (trunk) and have drbd communicate through it? I apologize in advance if this is not appropriate for the drbd message board, I realize it may be outside the scope of this forum. If so please disregard.