* [PATCH v3 net-next 5/6] bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation
@ 2013-06-21 13:11 Veaceslav Falico
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From: Veaceslav Falico @ 2013-06-21 13:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev
Cc: vfalico, fubar, andy, davem, linux, nicolas.2p.debian,
rick.jones2, nikolay, mkubecek
Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp
validation works.
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
---
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
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