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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 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 not 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
     ifenslave was originally written by Donald Becker
     ⟨becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov⟩, and has since been updated by various ker‐
     nel developers.

     This manual page was written by Guus Sliepen ⟨guus@debian.org⟩ for the
     Debian GNU/Linux system.

Debian GNU/Linux		March 28, 2024		      Debian GNU/Linux
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