How do I gracefully break a bonded network interface?

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Issue

In my system, there are some bonding devices which are working in different networks. For some business change request, I need to break one of bonded device back to 2 individual network interfaces. How to do that gracefully so as to make the network downtime as short as possible?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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