Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:39:19 +0100

> Currently we're only sending arp requests if we have a route to the target
> (and, thus, can find out the source ip address).
> 
> There are some use cases, however, where we don't want/need to set an ip
> address (or set up a specific route) for bonding to use arp monitoring *for
> traffic generation*. We can easily send arp probes (arp requests with src
> ip == 0) to generate arp broadcast responses from the target ip and use
> them for determining if the target is up.
> 
> This, obviously, won't work with arp validation - because we don't have the
> ip address set and, thus, will filter out the responses. So in that case -
> print a warning.
> 
> CC: François CACHEREUL <f.cachereul@alphalink.fr>
> CC: Zhenjie Chen <zhchen@redhat.com>
> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>

Applied, thank you.