I've installed RHEL 6 on a physical HP server. it is configured with a bond between eth0 and eth1. Configs:DEVICE=bond0BOOTPROTO=staticIPADDR=10.12.25.52PREFIX=20GATEWAY=10.12.16.1DNS1=10.12.16.33DNS2=10.12.16.59DOMAIN=hph.localDEFROUTE=yesONBOOT=yesHOTPLUG=noUSERCTL=noNM_CONTROLLED=noIPV6INIT=noBONDING_OPTS=mode=balance-rr num_grat_arp=3 miimon=100DEVICE=eth0BOOTPROTO=noneONBOOT=yesHOTPLUG=noMASTER=bond0SLAVE=yesUSERCTL=noNM_CONTROLLED=noDEVICE=eth1BOOTPROTO=noneONBOOT=yesHOTPLUG=noMASTER=bond0SLAVE=yesUSERCTL=noNM_CONTROLLED=noBond state:[user@server ~]$ cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)MII Status: upMII Polling Interval (ms): 100Up Delay (ms): 0Down Delay (ms): 0Slave Interface: eth0MII Status: upSpeed: 10000 MbpsDuplex: fullLink Failure Count: 1Permanent HW addr: 14:02:ec:8b:df:20Slave queue ID: 0Slave Interface: eth1MII Status: upSpeed: 10000 MbpsDuplex: fullLink Failure Count: 1Permanent HW addr: 14:02:ec:8b:df:21Slave queue ID: 0I'm frequently seeing the network freeze. If I attempt to connect via SSH nothing happens. If I attempt to ping the server's IP address nothing happens. But, once I log into the server's console and ping the gateway, everything breaks free and I can both ping the server and connect remotely.Initially I thought maybe it was due to not tuning the bond options. I have since added those hoping that the num_grat_arp option in particular would fix it. This doesn't seem to be the case as the freeze continues arbitrarily.Should I be using different options? Is there something else that I'm not aware of such as a bug?
Network freezes on RHEL 6 bond
networking;rhel;bonding