[Cialug] NIC Teaming/Bonding and Vlans

[Matt Patterson]

All,

I have run into a problem that I'm hoping someone may have hit before. 
I have a debian 3.1 box that I recently moved to a network where NIC 
bonding/teaming is the standard.  I did the normal configuration of making 
sure mii, bonding, and 8021q modules were loaded and the ifenslave 
utility was installed.  I can setup the nic bond and everything appears 
to be just fine.  However, when I add a vlan to the bond0 device, I get 
the following:

ERROR: trying to add VLAN #224 to IF -:bond0:-  error: Invalid argument

in /var/log/syslog I see:

Jul  9 12:14:45 zabbix kernel: register_vlan_device: VLANs not supported 
on bond0.

Normally I would accept that as being the case that maybe the NICs just 
don't support vlans or something is screwed up with the vlan tools. 
BUT... I can take down the NIC bond and add vlans to eth0 with NO ISSUES.

WTF!?!

Anyone have any insight on what I might be screwing up? Or is this a 
debian feature?

-Matt