Making Sure that Bond Interface is Working

Step

Instructions

1

Connect to the command line on the applicable Security GroupClosed A logical group of Security Appliances that provides Active/Active cluster functionality. A Security Group can contain one or more Security Appliances. Security Groups work separately and independently from each other. To the production networks, a Security Group appears a single Security Gateway. Every Security Group contains: (A) Applicable Uplink ports, to which your production networks are connected; (B) Security Appliances (the Quantum Maestro Orchestrator determines the applicable Downlink ports automatically); (C) Applicable management port, to which the Check Point Management Server is connected..

2

Log in to the Expert mode.

3

Examine the Bond interface state and configuration:

[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]# g_cat /proc/net/bonding/<Bond Group ID> 

[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]# g_cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)

Bonding Mode: load balancing (round-robin)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 200
Down Delay (ms): 200

Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:69

Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:70
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]#
 
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]# g_cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)

Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)
Primary Slave: eth2
Currently Active Slave: eth2
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 200
Down Delay (ms): 200

Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:69

Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:70
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]#
 
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]# g_cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)

Bonding Mode: load balancing (xor)
Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 200
Down Delay (ms): 200

Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:69

Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:70
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]#
 
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]# g_cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.4 (January 28, 2008)

Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 200
Down Delay (ms): 200

802.3ad info
LACP rate: slow

Slave Interface: eth2
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:69
Aggregator ID: 1

Slave Interface: eth3
MII Status: up
Link Failure Count: 0
Permanent HW addr: 00:50:56:a3:73:70
Aggregator ID: 1
[Expert@MyChassis-ch0x-0x:0]#