IFENSLAVE
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NAME
ifenslave
- Attach and detach slave network devices to a bonding device.
SYNOPSIS
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[-
-all-interfaces
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[-
-change-active
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[-
-detach
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[-
-force
]
[-
-help
]
[-
-usage
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[-
-verbose
]
[-
-version
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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
- -a, -all-interfaces
-
Show information about all interfaces.
- -c, -change-active
-
Change active slave.
- -d, -detach
-
Removes slave interfaces from the bonding device.
- -f, -force
-
Force actions to be taken if one of the specified interfaces appears not to belong to an Ethernet device.
- -h, -help
-
Display a help message and exit.
- -u, -usage
-
Show usage information and exit.
- -v, -verbose
-
Print warning and debug messages.
- -V, -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
An Donald Becker Aq
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov ,
and has since been updated by various kernel developers.
This manual page was written by
An Guus Sliepen Aq guus@debian.org
for the Debian GNU/Linux system.