HOWTO Setup Bonding Ethernet on Debian with a 2.6 kernel

This article was first written in October 2004 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/179).

• install package ifenslave-2.6 [2]
• 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 bond0 eth0 eth1
        down /sbin/ifenslave -d bond0 eth0 eth1

• comment or borrow the lines referring to your real NICs in the same file
• add the following lines to your /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386:

alias bond0 bonding
options bonding mode=1 miimon=100 downdelay=200 updelay=200