Controlling node services

Bonding is managed by a number of services on each node. The core services are:

• node: controls tunnels and TCP proxy instances, routes, iptables rules, DHCP and PPP clients, etc.
• config: manages the node configuration
• subprocess: calls system commands on behalf of other bonding applications

To start, stop, or restart all the services together, use the following commands:

service bonding restart
service bonding start
service bonding stop

Warning

service bonding stop takes down all legs. If you run this from a remote session, your session will be interrupted and you will not be able to start bonding again except by power cycling the device. Only do this on a serial or real console session!

Controlling services individually

You can control individual bonding services with the bondctl script.

Note

The bondctl command was removed in version 6.5.