nic in bonded group drops

[mpugina]

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I have two nics bonded in gentoo, eth2 and eth3 to bond0. eth2 is connected to a different switches than eth3 for redundancy with eth2 in standby and eth3 in active mode. eth3 is running fine with no drops but eth2 is dropping packets constantly.I swapped cables and checked the switch ports which show no errors. I did a TCPDUMP on eth2 and all I saw was arp requests.

eth2: flags=6211 mtu 1500 ether 90:b1:1c:19:59:1e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 32664867 bytes 2090551811 (1.9 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 32664913 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 36 memory 0xd7000000-d77fffff

eth3: flags=6211 mtu 1500 ether 90:b1:1c:19:59:1e txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 3186342439 bytes 683402238345 (636.4 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 2465388994 bytes 575317691871 (535.8 GiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0 device interrupt 37 memory 0xd8000000-d87fffff

Kernel Linux 3.7.9-gentoo
net config

config_eth0="null" config_eth1="null"

config_eth2="null"
config_eth3="null"
slaves_bond0="eth2 eth3"
config_bond0="64.241.127.5/27"
routes_bond0="default via 64.241.127.1"

ethtool output

Settings for eth2:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 18
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

Link detected: yes

Settings for eth3:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 1000Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 19
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

Link detected: yes

I believe the problem is being caused by the broadcast arp requests on the standby interface, eth2, if anyone knows how to turn off arp on a slave interface please let me know, I would like to try that out.