[ofa-general] can an ib-bonding slave work independently?

[Isaac Huang]

Hi list,

We had a customer report that while an ib-bonding device over ib0 
and ib2 (on different HCAs) worked well ib2 as an independent 
IPoIB device couldn't work (ICMP pings failed). It was CentOS 5.3,
with ib-bonding-0.9.0-28.

I've checked the release notes and ib-bonding.txt and couldn't find
any mention of such a limitation. It might be a configuration error 
at the customer site but debugging data so far has been scarce so I'd
like ask whether someone has worked with such configuration (both the
master and its slaves have valid IP addresses, and while the master
carries TCP/IP traffic only the slaves handle both RDMA-capable ULPs
and IPoIB), and if yes any configuration gotchas?

Thanks,
Isaac