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.