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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:52:34 -0400
From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>,
Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@...com>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover
Updated to address Vlad's comment about storing the link-local IPv6
address in the bond/vlan structure, I no longer overwrite the existing
address with a newer one. Also added missed locking for the inet6_dev.
I don't see any way to address David Steven's comment since there is
currently no NA tunable in the IPv6 code.
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This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices,
especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses
configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko.
- Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the
IPv6-specific routines. Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds
are supported.
- Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited
IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event.
Default is 1.
- Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions:
ndisc_build_skb()
ndisc_send_skb()
These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to
add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends
shouldn't be asked to do this. These two routines are basically
__ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order.
- Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond
support to 3.4.0.
On failover, this new code will generate one packet:
- An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch
learn that the address has moved to the new slave.
Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good
behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example.
-Brian
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
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