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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:49:33 +0200 From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org Cc: vfalico@...hat.com, fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net, davem@...emloft.net, linux@...2.net, nicolas.2p.debian@...e.fr, rick.jones2@...com, nikolay@...hat.com, mkubecek@...e.cz Subject: [PATCH v4 net-next 5/6] bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index e7454fc..adee3b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ arp_validate such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be disabled. + The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly + helping bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to + work in case of the active slave failure, it doesn't really + guarantee that the backup slave will work if it's selected + as the next active slave. + This option is useful in network configurations in which multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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