From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Veaceslav Falico Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 5/6] bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:35:04 +0200 Message-ID: <1371746105-2482-6-git-send-email-vfalico@redhat.com> Cc: vfalico@redhat.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, davem@davemloft.net, linux@8192.net, nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr, rick.jones2@hp.com, nikolay@redhat.com To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:32543 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965608Ab3FTQfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:35:46 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico --- 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 e7454fc..adee3b4 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 -- 1.7.1