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title: "Network | Bonding | Update"
description: "This section describes how to update and modify a Bonding interface. There are two sections of the panel: Global Settings for configuring the interface and Slaves for selecting the enabled slaves among the available ones. # Global Settings In this…"
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updated: "2023-08-03"
category: Enterprise Edition / Administration Guide v6.2 / Network
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# Network | Bonding | Update

This section describes how to update and modify a Bonding interface. There are two sections of the panel: Global Settings for configuring the interface and Slaves for selecting the enabled slaves among the available ones.

# Global Settings

In this section, you may configure the following attributes on the bonding interface:

[![zevenet network bonding update settings](https://www.relianoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/zevenet_network_bonding_global_settings.png)](https://www.relianoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/zevenet_network_bonding_global_settings.png)

Name. The **bonding** interface name as stored in the system. This can not be edited.
  Mode. Bonding mode set when creating the **bonding** interface. Also not editable.
  IP Address. The network-layer IP address of the **bonding**. It supports IPv4 and IPv6. This field is mandatory and the Netmask field must be also set if DHCP is disabled.
  Netmask/CIDR. The subnet mask of the **bonding**. It supports Network mask format or **CIDR** (0 to 32 bits) when using IPv4, or only **CIDR** format (0 to 128 bits) when using IPv6. This field is mandatory and the Address field must also be set if DHCP is disabled.
  Gateway. The default gateway used by the **bonding**.
  MAC. The link-layer MAC address of the **bonding** interface. You can generate a new random valid MAC address by clicking on the generate random MAC button or configure a new custom MAC address. In case of changing the MAC for a custom MAC address, it should be used with caution to avoid MAC address duplication. Each slave will share the MAC address with the bonding master and will restore its MAC address once the bonding is deleted.
  Alias. An easy identification that can be easily accessed when configuring a farm or any other service.
  DHCP. Enable or disable the **Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol** (DHCP) for the **bonding** interface. If enabled it won’t allow static IP configuration and will require a DHCP server that is running and is reachable.

IPv4 and IPv6 stacks are supported, taking into account that the Netmask and Gateway must be configured in the same stack as the IP.

# Slaves

The configure slaves panel allows making changes to be able to select the Available NICs in the Slaves NICs that will be used to take part in a given bonding interface.

[![zevenet network bonding update slaves](https://www.relianoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/zevenet_network_bonding_slaves.png)](https://www.relianoid.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/zevenet_network_bonding_slaves.png)

Select the interface or interfaces you want to **add** or **remove** from the bonding interface and click on the arrow to apply the changes. You may also add all the Available NICs as slaves with the double arrows button. Notice that there must be at least one slave in the bonding.

Once all the required changes are done, press the Apply button. Once the configuration is updated the bonding interface is brought up.

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