From patchwork Fri Jun 21 13:11:23 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Veaceslav Falico X-Patchwork-Id: 253213 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68D72C034C for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:11:26 +1000 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030404Ab3FUNLW (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:11:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15700 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030216Ab3FUNLW (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:11:22 -0400 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5LDBDsN028153 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:11:13 -0400 Received: from darkmag.usersys.redhat.com (dhcp-27-204.brq.redhat.com [10.34.27.204]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r5LDAv0U025196; Fri, 21 Jun 2013 09:11:11 -0400 From: Veaceslav Falico To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: vfalico@redhat.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, davem@davemloft.net, linux@8192.net, nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr, rick.jones2@hp.com, nikolay@redhat.com, mkubecek@suse.cz Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 5/6] bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 15:11:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1371820284-13280-6-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico --- 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