Comment 67 for bug 482419

Hmm, I don't seem to be able to reproduce your problem.

I currently use:

stgraber@halla:~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet static
    address 10.145.15.20
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 10.145.15.1

    slaves eth0 eth1

    bond_mode 6
    bond_miimon 100
    bond_updelay 200
    bond_downdelay 200

and I get the following in my dmesg:

[ 7.151348] Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.5.0 (November 4, 2008)
[ 7.151354] bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link failures! see bonding.txt for details.
[ 7.155412] bonding: bond0: setting mode to balance-alb (6).
[ 7.155520] bonding: bond0: Setting MII monitoring interval to 100.
[ 7.155610] bonding: bond0: Setting up delay to 200.
[ 7.155686] bonding: bond0: Setting down delay to 200.
[ 7.160557] bonding: bond0: doing slave updates when interface is down.
[ 7.160568] bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth0.
[ 7.160573] bonding bond0: master_dev is not up in bond_enslave
[ 7.172556] bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as an active interface with a down link.
[ 7.197647] e1000: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX
[ 7.198734] bonding: bond0: doing slave updates when interface is down.
[ 7.198741] bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth1.
[ 7.198744] bonding bond0: master_dev is not up in bond_enslave
[ 7.209650] bonding: bond0: enslaving eth1 as an active interface with a down link.
[ 7.214369] bonding: bond0: link status up for interface eth0, enabling it in 0 ms.
[ 7.214539] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): bond0: link is not ready
[ 7.214550] bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth0.
[ 7.214556] bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one.
[ 7.214956] bonding: bond0: first active interface up!
[ 7.215301] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): bond0: link becomes ready
[ 18.148005] bond0: no IPv6 routers present

Did I miss something ?