How To Install ifenslave on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifenslave
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ifenslave
ifenslave 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.
There are three methods to install ifenslave
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ifenslave Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ifenslave
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ifenslave
Install ifenslave Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ifenslave
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ifenslave
Install ifenslave Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ifenslave
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ifenslave
How To Uninstall ifenslave on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ifenslave
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ifenslave
Uninstall ifenslave And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ifenslave
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ifenslave
Remove ifenslave Configurations and Data
To remove ifenslave
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ifenslave
Remove ifenslave configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ifenslave
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ifenslave
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifenslave
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.