This article was first written in July 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/142).
To use Bonding Ethernet for High-Availability (fail-over) on Debian (Woody, Sarge or Sid with a 2.4.x kernel) you need to:
- install package ifenslave-2.4
- make sure the real NICs kernel modules are loaded automatically
- edit /etc/network/interfaces to look like this:
iface bond0 inet static address 10.31.1.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 10.31.1.0 gateway 10.31.1.254 up /sbin/ifenslave
