Bonding two network cards

Hi People,

I configured bonding (mode=1 - active-backup) and it seems to work
properly but there's on thing which maybe I'm missing. Two network cards
are used, as far as I understood one is the master (eth0) and the other
one (eth1) is the slave. Testing the job I found that when eth0 goes
down the bond0 interface still replies to the IP requests whereas if the
eth1 goes down the bond0 doesn't work anymore though the it's up and
running.

I also tried using the mode=3 (broadcast) which seems to be the other
choice for multiple switch topology network but I have the same problem.
What I simply need is a fault tolerance only configuration where one
network card is connected to one switch and the other one to another switch.

Any advice?

Cheers,
Jan

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