ifenslave.sh version 2 (2013-05-05) Copyright (c) 2012-2013 Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

IFENSLAVE(8) BSD System Manager's Manual IFENSLAVE(8) NAME ifenslave — Attach and detach slave network devices to a bonding device. SYNOPSIS ifenslave [-acdfhuvV] [--all-interfaces] [--change-active] [--detach] [--force] [--help] [--usage] [--verbose] [--version] master slave ... DESCRIPTION ifenslave is a tool to attach and detach slave network devices to a bond‐ ing 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-bal‐ ancing, identical to "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches. The kernel must have support for bonding devices for ifenslave to be use‐ ful. 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 no options are given, the default action will be to enslave inter‐ faces. 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 Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux February 24, 2017 Debian GNU/Linux