I've a bonding on two interfaces. I want to check the switch-redundancy by getting the hostname (or IP) of the switch, which a given interface is connected.
Currently I'm checking this with following command (MAC is like this to check, not just as example):
tcpdump -vv -s0 -i ethX ether host 01:00:0c:cc:cc:cc
Are there any other solutions to monitor this?
Greeting
Are the switches running some sort of Discovery Protocol (LLDP, CDP, etc..?) If so you can use that protocol to query the network, look for neighbors, etc..
You may be confusing a switch with a router. Even so, some switches are smart enough and broadcast at least some information. You may not be able to reliably get the hostname, but you can still get "something". For example, if your switches use spanning tree protocol, you can use tcpdump and then confirm that the "bridge id" on both ports contains a different MAC address.
If you have CLI access to the switches, can't you just query the switches for their MAC address port/table listing?
e.g. on Cisco - show mac-address | i 01:00:0c:cc:cc:cc
If you just want to see the status of your bonded connection, run:
cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
It should output:
Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.4.0-1 (October 7, 2008)
Bonding Mode: IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
Transmit Hash Policy: layer2 (0)
MII Status: up
MII Polling Interval (ms): 100
Up Delay (ms): 0
Down Delay (ms): 0
802.3ad info
LACP rate: slow
Active Aggregator Info:
Aggregator ID: 2
Number of ports: 2
Actor Key: 17
Partner Key: 17476
Partner Mac Address: 00:1f:28:04:69:c0
Slave Interface: eth0
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 2
Permanent HW addr: 00:26:55:31:db:32
Aggregator ID: 2
Slave Interface: eth1
MII Status: up
Speed: 1000 Mbps
Duplex: full
Link Failure Count: 2
Permanent HW addr: 00:26:55:31:db:34
Aggregator ID: 2
