bond-primary must be set in slave interface

[Mark Hall]

The bond-primary statment does not take effect when placed under the master interface. It will work if it is placed under any one of the slave inerfaces.

Primary interface is properly set:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
bond-master bond0
bond-primary eth1

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet dhcp
bond-slaves eth1 eth2
bond-mode 1
bond-miimon 100

Primary interface is not set:

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet manual
bond-master bond0

auto bond0
iface bond0 inet dhcp
bond-slaves eth1 eth2
bond-primary eth1
bond-mode 1
bond-miimon 100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ifenslave-2.6 - 1.1.0-20ubuntu3

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ifenslave-2.6 (1.1.0-20ubuntu3) raring; urgency=low

  * Update documentation to match the way ifenslave-2.6 works in Ubuntu.
    (LP: #1087876, LP: #1073820)
  * Don't use seq in pre-up as it's in /usr, instead replace by a while
    loop. (LP: #1065077)
 -- Stephane Graber <email address hidden> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:38:07 -0500

[Fred (ubuntunone)]

Per http://launchpadlibrarian.net/125456935/ifenslave-2.6_1.1.0-20ubuntu2_1.1.0-20ubuntu3.diff.gz the changes were exactly the opposite of correcting the docs to describe the above behaviour.

I have tested this on ifenslave-2.4ubuntu1 on 14.04, and the behaviour is exactly as Mark describes it - bond-primary only works when set in the slave stanza. Docs are still wrong.

[Bostjan Skufca Jese (bostjanskufcajese)]

Same behaviour in 16.04.