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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 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 ifenslave 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
ifenslave was originally written by Donald Becker 〈 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov〉 , and has since been updated by various kernel developers.
This manual page was written by Guus Sliepen 〈 guus@debian.org〉 for the Debian GNU/Linux system.
September 9, 2015
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