wired:~# cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.5 (March 21, 2008) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: None Currently Active Slave: eth0 MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 100 Up Delay (ms): 200 Down Delay (ms): 200 Slave Interface: eth0 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:14:4f:1f:e5:74 Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:14:4f:1f:e5:75 [ 43.258739] Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.2.5 (March 21, 2008) [ 43.335680] bonding: MII link monitoring set to 100 ms [ 43.478774] bonding: bond0: enslaving eth0 as a backup interface with a down link. [ 43.601857] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX [ 43.706334] bonding: bond0: link status up for interface eth0, enabling it in 200 ms. [ 43.830921] bonding: bond0: making interface eth0 the new active one 100 ms earlier. [ 43.923652] bonding: bond0: first active interface up! [ 43.987883] e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX [ 44.090971] bonding: bond0: enslaving eth1 as a backup interface with a down link. [ 44.180389] bonding: bond0: link status up for interface eth1, enabling it in 200 ms. [ 44.530802] bonding: bond0: link status definitely up for interface eth1.