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authorJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>2008-06-13 18:12:03 -0700
committerJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>2008-06-18 00:00:04 -0400
commitb59f9f74c4c0a569398f08c34a877f1b7b457496 (patch)
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parent01f3109de49a889db8adf9116449727547ee497e (diff)
bonding: Rework / fix multiple gratuitous ARP support
Support for sending multiple gratuitous ARPs during failovers was added by commit: commit 7893b2491a2d5f716540ac5643d78d37a7f6628b Author: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Date: Sat May 17 21:10:12 2008 -0700 bonding: Send more than one gratuitous ARP when slave takes over This change modifies that support to remove duplicated code, add support for ARP monitor (the original only supported miimon), clear the grat ARP counter in bond_close (lest a later "ifconfig up" immediately start spewing ARPs), and add documentation for the module parameter. Also updated driver version to 3.3.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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@@ -539,6 +539,17 @@ mode
swapped with the new curr_active_slave that was
chosen.
+num_grat_arp
+
+ Specifies the number of gratuitous ARPs to be issued after a
+ failover event. One gratuitous ARP is issued immediately after
+ the failover, subsequent ARPs are sent at a rate of one per link
+ monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active).
+
+ The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option
+ affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for
+ bonding version 3.3.0.
+
primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the