@@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ num_unsol_na
unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a
failover event. As soon as the link is up on the new slave
(possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the
- bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at
- each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever
- is active) if the number is greater than 1.
+ bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at
+ the rate specified by peer_notif_delay if the number is
+ greater than 1.
The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. These options
affect only the active-backup mode. These options were added for
@@ -727,6 +727,16 @@ packets_per_slave
The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option
has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+peer_notif_delay
+
+ Specify the delay, in milliseconds, between each peer
+ notification (gratuitous ARP and unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor
+ Advertisement) when they are issued after a failover event.
+ This delay should be a multiple of the link monitor interval
+ (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). The default
+ value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor
+ interval.
+
primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the
Ability to tweak the interval between peer notifications has been added in 07a4ddec3ce9 ("bonding: add an option to specify a delay between peer notifications") but the documentation was not updated. Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch> --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)