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From: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>,
	Alex Sidorenko <alexandre.sidorenko@hp.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	fubar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48ECF70C.8080108@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF2E92DF11.37B32D55-ON882574DC.0060DD39-882574DC.006110E1@us.ibm.com>

David Stevens wrote:
> Brian,
>         I'll make the same comment I did in the earlier version,
> which is I don't think we need a new control for the count. Instead,
> it should use the count for unsolicited NA's we send when adding
> an address. It is the same case, really, and I, FWIW, would rather
> we didn't have any more sysctl's than we need.
> 
>                                                 +-DLS
> 

Are you referring to 'dad_transmits' because I don't see any sysctls
that control the number of unsolicited NAs.  In fact, in normal operations
we don't send any unsolicited NAs at all.

This functionality effectively duplicates the gratuitous arps controls on the
bond.

-vlad


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-08 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-08  1:13 [PATCH] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover Brian Haley
2008-10-08  7:26 ` Simon Horman
2008-10-08 17:40 ` David Stevens
2008-10-08 18:08   ` Vlad Yasevich [this message]
2008-10-08 18:19   ` David Stevens
2008-10-08 19:01     ` Brian Haley
2008-10-08 22:22       ` Sridhar Samudrala
2008-10-09  2:08         ` Brian Haley
2008-10-08 19:12     ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-08 19:41       ` David Stevens
2008-10-08 19:53         ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-08 18:15 ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-08 18:34   ` Jay Vosburgh
2008-10-08 19:05     ` Brian Haley
2008-10-08 19:07     ` Vlad Yasevich
2008-10-08 19:36       ` Jay Vosburgh

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