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 no 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¶
Guus Sliepen
⟨guus@debian.org⟩