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I have mode=1 in my modules.conf. However, looking at /proc/net/bonding/bond0 shows that it is in round-robin load balancing phase. I've restarted networking several times to no avail. Any idea why this is not changing?

Reboot the box or remove module and again reload. I hope you have correct syntax in modules.conf file.

Thanks. I figured it out. Problem seemed to stem from having the alias bond0 bonding in the modules.conf while everything else was using modprobe.conf. Moving alias bond0 bonding to modprobe.conf resolved the issue. However,I've encountered another annoyance. For some reason, bonding starts both eth0 and eth1 and then downs eth1 for some reason. This only occurs during boot. If I manually restart the network, both eth0 and eth1 come up and stay up.
Here is my dmesg:

ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link.
bonding: bond0: enslaving eth1 as a backup interface with a down link.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0.
bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
tg3: eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth1: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth1.
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipef, uses genfs_contexts
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0332e60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
bonding: bond0: link status definitely down for interface eth1, disabling it
bond0: no IPv6 routers present
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

may be some sort of bug just update software and kernel to latest version.

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