bond0 interface

In the example below, the bond0 interface is the master (MASTER) while eth0 and eth1 are slaves (SLAVE). Notice all slaves of bond0 have the same MAC address (HWaddr) as bond0 for all modes except TLB and ALB that require a unique MAC address for each slave.

# /sbin/ifconfig
bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4
inet
addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST
RUNNING MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7224794 errors:0
dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3286647 errors:1 dropped:0
overruns:1 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

eth0 Link
encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4
inet addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY
Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING SLAVE
MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3573025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
TX packets:1643167 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1080

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:F0:1F:37:B4
inet
addr:XXX.XXX.XXX.YYY Bcast:XXX.XXX.XXX.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST
RUNNING SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3651769 errors:0
dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1643480 errors:0 dropped:0
overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:9 Base
address:0x1400