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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2014 14:54:36 -0500 (EST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: vfalico@...hat.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.cachereul@...halink.fr, zhchen@...hat.com, fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:39:19 +0100 > Currently we're only sending arp requests if we have a route to the target > (and, thus, can find out the source ip address). > > There are some use cases, however, where we don't want/need to set an ip > address (or set up a specific route) for bonding to use arp monitoring *for > traffic generation*. We can easily send arp probes (arp requests with src > ip == 0) to generate arp broadcast responses from the target ip and use > them for determining if the target is up. > > This, obviously, won't work with arp validation - because we don't have the > ip address set and, thus, will filter out the responses. So in that case - > print a warning. > > CC: François CACHEREUL <f.cachereul@...halink.fr> > CC: Zhenjie Chen <zhchen@...hat.com> > CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com> > CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net> > Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> Applied, thank you. -- 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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