diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index a55f0f95b171..b0fe41da007b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ doing so is the same as described in the "Configuring Multiple Bonds Manually" section, below. NOTE: It has been observed that some Red Hat supplied kernels -are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-obonding1" +are apparently unable to rename modules at load time (the "-o bond1" part). Attempts to pass that option to modprobe will produce an "Operation not permitted" error. This has been reported on some Fedora Core kernels, and has been seen on RHEL 4 as well. On kernels @@ -883,7 +883,8 @@ the above does not work, and the second bonding instance never sees its options. In that case, the second options line can be substituted as follows: -install bonding1 /sbin/modprobe bonding -obond1 mode=balance-alb miimon=50 +install bond1 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bonding -o bond1 \ + mode=balance-alb miimon=50 This may be repeated any number of times, specifying a new and unique name in place of bond1 for each subsequent instance.