Changing LACP timeout

How to change the LACP Timeout?

Here are Steps how to change the the LACP timeout from 3 sec to 30 sec as requested by the NET department at KIT-SCC.

With this change now all-HPSS Hosts have the same timeout setting as the SCC-Switches.

Changes done by Jonathan Hermann (IBM) on 5.11.2014

1. Backup ifcfg-bond0 file   
ssh_all "cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.20141105"


2. set lacp_rate=0

ssh_all "sed -i 's/lacp_rate=1/lacp_rate=0/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0"

3. restart network Interface

ssh_all "ip l s dev bond0 down"
ssh_all "ip l s dev bond0 up"