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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


             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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