Using bond interface for Veritas VCS LLT link

If you need to use bonded interface (say bond0) in Veritas VCS on linux, you may be getting jeopardy entries in gabconfig -a.


# gabconfig -a  ( on a three node cluster)
GAB Port Memberships
===============================================================
Port a gen   5afa01 membership 01
Port a gen   5afa01   jeopardy ;1
Port b gen   5afa04 membership 01
Port b gen   5afa04   jeopardy ;1
Port d gen   5afa07 membership 01
Port d gen   5afa07   jeopardy ;1
Port f gen   5afa13 membership 01
Port f gen   5afa13   jeopardy ;1
Port h gen   5afa09 membership 01
Port h gen   5afa09   jeopardy ;1
Port u gen   5afa11 membership 01
Port u gen   5afa11   jeopardy ;1
Port v gen   5afa0c membership 01
Port v gen   5afa0c   jeopardy ;1
Port w gen   5afa0e membership 01
Port w gen   5afa0e   jeopardy ;1
Port y gen   5afa0b membership 01
Port y gen   5afa0b   jeopardy ;1

You need to change llttab like bellow ( see set-dbg-minlinks 2) and it will go off !

# cat /etc/llttab

set-node

set-cluster 59195

link bond0 bond0 - ether - -

set-verbose 1

set-dbg-minlinks 2

A good working gabconfig will loook like:

# gabconfig -a

GAB Port Memberships

===============================================================

Port a gen   495401 membership 012

Port b gen   495405 membership 012

Port d gen   495408 membership 012

Port f gen   495417 membership 012

Port h gen   49540c membership 012

Port u gen   495414 membership 012

Port v gen   49540f membership 012

Port w gen   495411 membership 012

Port y gen   49540e membership 012