Comment 11 for bug 823366

> but your example does not do this (I don't think this has anything to do with
> the problem but I mention it just in case).

Actually, that does prevent your bond_mode, bond_arp_* settings from being applied; unfortunately you do have to reproduce all the options between all the interfaces.

> Since bond0 no longer has an "auto bond0" stanza, I
> see nothing in if-pre-up.d/ifenslave which would bring up bond0.

You didn't show the 'auto bond0' in the original post, so I didn't include it in my counterexample. :) I think adding this back should be enough to fix the problem.