Debian testing: $ dpkg -l | grep ifenslave ii ifenslave 2.10+nmu2 all configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)
The lines "bond-slaves" and "bond-primary" still do not work: iface bond0 inet static address 10.234.0.32 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.234.0.0 broadcast 10.234.0.255 bond-slaves eth2 eth3 bond-mode active-backup bond-primary eth2 bond-arp_interval 2000 bond-arp_ip_target 10.234.0.33, 10.234.0.34 # ifup bond0 # # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.7.0-1-amd64 Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: None Currently Active Slave: None MII Status: down MII Polling Interval (ms): 0 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0 ARP Polling Interval (ms): 2000 ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.234.0.33, 10.234.0.34 I miss the slaves eth2 and eth3, so I add them by manually: # echo "+eth2" > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves # echo "+eth3" > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves [or:] # ip link set eth2 master bond0 # ip link set eth3 master bond0 # echo eth2 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/primary # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v5.7.0-1-amd64 Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: eth2 (primary_reselect always) Currently Active Slave: eth2 MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 0 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Peer Notification Delay (ms): 0 ARP Polling Interval (ms): 2000 ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): 10.234.0.33, 10.234.0.34 Slave Interface: eth2 MII Status: up Speed: 1000 Mbps Duplex: full Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 90:b1:1c:33:94:d8 Slave queue ID: 0 Slave Interface: eth3 MII Status: up Speed: 1000 Mbps Duplex: full Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 90:b1:1c:33:94:d9 Slave queue ID: 0 -- richard lucassen http://contact.xaq.nl/