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7 .Nd Attach and detach slave network devices to a bonding device.
11 .Op Fl -all-interfaces
24 is a tool to attach and detach slave network devices to a bonding device.
25 A bonding device will act like a normal Ethernet network device to the kernel,
26 but will send out the packets via the slave devices using a simple round-robin scheduler.
27 This allows for simple load-balancing,
28 identical to "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches.
30 The kernel must have support for bonding devices for
34 .Bl -tag -width indent
35 .It Fl a, -all-interfaces
36 Show information about all interfaces.
37 .It Fl c, -change-active
40 Removes slave interfaces from the bonding device.
42 Force actions to be taken if one of the specified interfaces appears not to belong to an Ethernet device.
44 Display a help message and exit.
46 Show usage information and exit.
48 Print warning and debug messages.
50 Show version information and exit.
52 If not options are given, the default action will be to enslave interfaces.
54 The following example shows how to setup a bonding device and
55 enslave two real Ethernet devices to it:
58 # ifconfig bond0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0
59 # ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1
63 was originally written by
64 .An Donald Becker Aq becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov ,
65 and has since been updated by various kernel developers.
67 This manual page was written by
68 .An Guus Sliepen Aq guus@debian.org
69 for the Debian GNU/Linux system.