Bond fails to start with "Error: Enslave failed"
Issue
- Bond interface fails to start with the error:
"Illegal operation: The specified slave interface 'eth0' is already a slave
Master 'bond0', Slave 'eth0': Error: Enslave failed"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
- Bonded network interfaces
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