NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
is a tool to attach and detach slave network devices to a bonding device.
A bonding device will act like a normal Ethernet network device to the kernel,
but will send out the packets via the slave devices using a simple round-robin scheduler.
This allows for simple load-balancing,
identical to "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches.
The kernel must have support for bonding devices for
to be useful.
OPTIONS
- -all-interfaces
Show information about all interfaces.
- -change-active
Change active slave.
- -detach
Removes slave interfaces from the bonding device.
- -force
Force actions to be taken if one of the specified interfaces appears not to belong to an Ethernet device.
- -help
Display a help message and exit.
- -usage
Show usage information and exit.
- -verbose
Print warning and debug messages.
- -version
Show version information and exit.
If not options are given, the default action will be to enslave interfaces.
EXAMPLE
The following example shows how to setup a bonding device and
enslave two real Ethernet devices to it:
# modprobe bonding
# ifconfig bond0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0
# ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
AUTHOR
was originally written by
and has since been updated by various kernel developers.
This manual page was written by
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
