Bug#963889: O: ifenslave -- configure network interfaces for parallel routing (bonding)

[Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I intend to orphan the ifenslave package.

I no longer have any time to work on it. The package has an important
bug that should be fixed. Linux bonding interfaces use a controversial
naming scheme (master/slave, and the package name itself reflects this).
If you adopt this, I suggest changing the package name to "bonding", and
replace the master/slave terminology with parent/child.

ifenslave used to be a standalone binary that sent ioctls to the kernel,
but nowadays bonding can be configured via the "ip" command from the
iproute2 package, and by writing to the /sys/ tree. The package no
longer contains the standalone binary, but just provides hooks scripts
for ifupdown.


The package description is:
 This is a tool to attach and detach slave network interfaces to a bonding
 device. A bonding device will act like a normal Ethernet network device to
 the kernel, but will send out the packets via the slave devices using a simple
 round-robin scheduler. This allows for simple load-balancing, identical to
 "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches.
 .
 The kernel must have support for bonding devices for ifenslave to be useful.
 This package supports 2.6.x kernels and the recent 3.x.x kernels.
 This is a tool to attach and detach slave network interfaces to a bonding
 device. A bonding device will act like a normal Ethernet network device to
 the kernel, but will send out the packets via the slave devices using a simple
 round-robin scheduler. This allows for simple load-balancing, identical to
 "channel bonding" or "trunking" techniques used in switches.
 .
 The kernel must have support for bonding devices for ifenslave to be useful.
 This package supports 2.6.x kernels and the recent 3.x.x kernels.