From: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
"Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Subject: [PATCH] bonding: document two undocumented options.
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:06:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1312315615-5739-1-git-send-email-nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> (raw)
Commit 655f8919d549ad1872e24d826b6ce42530516d2e
bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad
and commit ebd8e4977a87cb81d93c62a9bff0102a9713722f
bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter
introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation
for those options.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
---
Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 675612f..058ddea 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -238,6 +238,15 @@ ad_select
This option was added in bonding version 3.4.0.
+all_slaves_active
+
+ Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports) should be
+ dropped (0) or delivered (1).
+
+ Normally, bonding will drop duplicate frames (received on inactive
+ ports), which is desirable for most users. But there are some times
+ it is nice to allow duplicate frames to be delivered.
+
arp_interval
Specifies the ARP link monitoring frequency in milliseconds.
@@ -433,6 +442,18 @@ miimon
determined. See the High Availability section for additional
information. The default value is 0.
+min_links
+
+ Specifies the minimum number of links that must be active before
+ asserting carrier. It is similar to the Cisco EtherChannel min-links
+ feature. This allows setting the minimum number of member ports that
+ must be up (link-up state) before marking the bond device as up
+ (carrier on). This is useful for situations where higher level services
+ such as clustering want to ensure a minimum number of low bandwidth
+ links are active before switchover.
+
+ This only affect 802.3ad mode.
+
mode
Specifies one of the bonding policies. The default is
--
1.7.5.4
next reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-02 20:06 Nicolas de Pesloüan [this message]
2011-08-03 6:43 ` bonding and ifenslave version Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 19:03 ` Andy Gospodarek
2011-08-03 19:38 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 20:07 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-08-03 20:38 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-04 5:31 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-04 16:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-04 21:20 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 10:44 ` [PATCH] bonding: document two undocumented options David Miller
2011-08-03 20:01 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 20:59 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-08-04 5:41 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-06 17:06 ` [PATCH v3] " Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-08 5:16 ` David Miller
2011-08-03 20:02 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas de Pesloüan
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