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| author | Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> | 2013-06-24 11:49:33 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-26 01:58:38 +0200 |
| commit | d7d35c681fb4eae1fab3d93698e26a106ca7e79e (patch) | |
| tree | f14698288b7562aa33f04c0b7ffbef3c493f2c9e /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | bonding: don't trust arp requests unless active slave really works (diff) | |
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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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 e7454fcc9176..adee3b4a75cb 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 |