From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vlad Yasevich Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:12 -0400 Message-ID: <48ECF70C.8080108@hp.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brian Haley , Alex Sidorenko , David Miller , fubar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Simon Horman , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: David Stevens Return-path: Received: from g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com ([15.192.0.46]:4617 "EHLO g5t0009.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751182AbYJHSIQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 14:08:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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