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# sk169759 - The output of "cat /proc/net/bonding/bond<number>" shows "Partner Churn State: monitoring"

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk169759 |
| Date Created | 2020-09-30 |
| Last Modified | 2020-10-04 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |
| OS | Gaia |

## Symptoms

- The output of "cat /proc/net/bonding/bond\<number\>" shows "Partner Churn State: monitoring", for example:

```

 [Expert@admin]# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
  
 Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
 Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
 MII Status: up
 MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
 Up Delay (ms): 200
 Down Delay (ms): 200
 
 802.3ad info
 LACP rate: fast
 Min links: 0
 Aggregator selection policy (ad_select): stable
 System priority: 65535
 System MAC address: 70:10:6f:51:88:8c
 Active Aggregator Info:
     Aggregator ID: 2
     Number of ports: 1
     Actor Key: 9
     Partner Key: 14
     Partner Mac Address: 54:4b:8c:c9:51:c0
 
 Slave Interface: eth0
 MII Status: up
 Speed: 1000 Mbps
 Duplex: full
 Link Failure Count: 0
 Permanent HW addr: 70:10:6f:51:88:8c
 Slave queue ID: 0
 Aggregator ID: 1
 Actor Churn State: monitoring
 Partner Churn State: monitoring
 Actor Churned Count: 1
 Partner Churned Count: 1
 details actor lacp pdu:
 system priority: 65535
 system mac address: 70:10:6f:51:88:8c
 port key: 9
 port priority: 255
 port number: 1
 port state: 71
 details partner lacp pdu:
 system priority: 65535
 system mac address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
 oper key: 1
 port priority: 255
 port number: 1
 port state: 1
 
 
 Slave Interface: eth1
 MII Status: up
 Speed: 1000 Mbps
 Duplex: full
 Link Failure Count: 0
 Permanent HW addr: 70:10:6f:51:88:8d
 Slave queue ID: 0
 Aggregator ID: 2
 Actor Churn State: none
 Partner Churn State: none
 Actor Churned Count: 0
 Partner Churned Count: 0
 details actor lacp pdu:
 system priority: 65535
 system mac address: 70:10:6f:51:88:8c
 port key: 9
 port priority: 255
 port number: 2
 port state: 63
 details partner lacp pdu:
 system priority: 127
 system mac address: 54:4b:8c:c9:51:c0
 oper key: 1
 
```

## Cause

The bond slave interface is in the process of the initial LACP communication with the LACP peer.

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