LINUX: How to Switch Active Slave for Particular Network Interface on Linux host?

Below command can be used to flip active slave on the network interface on Linux host.

ifenslave -c <interface name> <slave name which you want to have as active slave>

For e.g. if you have bond0 interface with 2 slaves eth0 and eth1 and if you want to set eth1 as active slave for bond0, Below is the command you have to run.

ifenslave -c bond0 eth1

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All Linux Operating Systems

Article Author: Tarun Boyella