IFENSLAVE(8)

💖 IFENSLAVE 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because ifenslave from the System Manager's Manual is literally about to become your new hyperfixation ✨

✨ 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 🌸

so like, ifenslave is the tool that attaches and detaches slave network devices to a bonding device. fr fr, that's the whole job. 🫶

here's the vibe: a bonding device acts like a totally normal Ethernet network device to the kernel, but the way it actually sends out packets is via the slave devices, using a simple round-robin scheduler. and the way that gives you simple load-balancing?? identical to the "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques switches use. it's giving ✨main character networking✨, no cap. 👑

💀 okay but important: your kernel must have support for bonding devices or ifenslave is literally useless to you. vibe check your kernel first, bestie.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -a, --all-interfaces — show info about all the interfaces 👀
• -c, --change-active — change the active slave 🔄
• -d, --detach — removes slave interfaces from the bonding device, bye bestie 👋
• -f, --force — force actions to be taken if one of the specified interfaces appears not to belong to an Ethernet device. sometimes you just gotta be a little pushy 💪
• -h, --help — display a help message and exit 🆘
• -u, --usage — show usage information and exit 📖
• -v, --verbose — print warning and debug messages, so you actually know what's happening 🗣️
• -V, --version — show version information and exit 🏷️

⭐ psst: if you give no options at all, the default action is to enslave interfaces. iconic default behavior tbh.

🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

here's how you set up a bonding device and enslave two real Ethernet devices to it, step by step, bestie 🧚

# modprobe bonding
# ifconfig bond0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0
# ifenslave bond0 eth0 eth1

slay. three lines and you're bonded. 🍓

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> — the actual legend who wrote this 💜

and that's the whole page, fr fr 💖 Debian GNU/Linux, dated 2012-07-13, and yeah the manual name is IFENSLAVE(8) because of course it is. go bond something, bestie 🦋🌸