From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20de=20Peslo=C3=BCan?= Subject: [PATCH] bonding: document two undocumented options. Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:06:55 +0200 Message-ID: <1312315615-5739-1-git-send-email-nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20de=20Peslo=C3=BCan?= To: davem@davemloft.net Return-path: Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.6]:38947 "EHLO smtp6-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755024Ab1HBUHR (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:07:17 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Peslo=C3=BCan --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/netwo= rking/bonding.txt index 675612f..058ddea 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -238,6 +238,15 @@ ad_select =20 This option was added in bonding version 3.4.0. =20 +all_slaves_active + + Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports) should b= e + 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 =20 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. =20 +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 servic= es + such as clustering want to ensure a minimum number of low bandwidth + links are active before switchover. + + This only affect 802.3ad mode. + mode =20 Specifies one of the bonding policies. The default is --=20 1.7.5.4