Re: bonding and bridging

[Stephan Seitz <dd@consistec.de>]

In debian.devel.user Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> wrote:
> Add the bonding module to /etc/modules, so that bond0 exists when the
> network interfaces are brought up. Then you can do something like:
> 
> iface bond0 inet static
>        address 0.0.0.0
>        netmask 0.0.0.0
>        slaves eth0 eth1

I would use:
iface bond0 inet manual
	slaves eth0 eth1
	pre-up /sbin/ifconfig bond0 up

Without the pre-up line bond0 will not be activated (Etch).

Shade and sweet water!

	Stephan

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