Linux/TCI6636K2H: Network Boning support

Hi, Shinha,

Network bonding should be supported in MCSDK 3.1.4.7. Please following the steps

If the kernel default configuration does not have bonding support, then you need to perform step 1 and 2 to rebuild kernel. The steps below is to configure to mode 6 in network bonding. Other modes should work, but don't have records for them.

1) Run menuconfig to enable bonding support
2) Build the kernel and boot up the EVM with the kernel built in (2)
3) Configure the bonding port in Linux kernel prompt (need to remove “auto eth0” in /etc/network/interfaces)
# echo 6 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/mode
# echo 100 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/miimon
# ifconfig bond0 up
# ./ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
# ifup bond0 (or ifconfig bond0 <ip addr>)
4) Ping from 2 different PC’s to EVM. In the set up shown below, mode 6 (tlb + rlb) are tested. Each PC sends the ICMP packets to the MAC address of the Ethernet port it connects to (rlb), but in the ICMP reply packets to each PC, the source MAC address is either eth0 or eth1 (tlb).

PC-1 (192.168.1.1) <---> |-----------------------| <---> eth0 ---\
| Ethernet switch | Bond0 (192.168.1.22) EVM
PC-2 (192.168.1.100) <---> |----------------------| <---> eth1 ---/

As what was given above, the MCSDK 3.1.4.7 is no longer supported. It should be taken as is. MCSDK was migrated to Processor SDK. The network bonding feature was dropped in ProcSDK.

Rex