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>

Debian GNU/Linux                                   2012-07-13                                       IFENSLAVE(8)