[PATCH v2 net-next 5/6] bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation
From: Veaceslav Falico <hidden>
Date: 2013-06-20 16:35:46
Subsystem:
documentation, networking [general], the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <redacted> --- 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
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