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authorStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-01 01:04:33 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-02-01 01:04:33 -0800
commiteefef1cf7653cd4e0aaf743c00ae8345086cdc01 (patch)
treeaf97b788658c5bf21ef2ca609c5f43ca59421269 /Documentation/networking
parentead731837d142b103eab9870105f50bc40b69255 (diff)
net: add ARP notify option for devices
This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for clusters or virtualization. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index c7712787933..ff3f219ee4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER
The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
when ARP request is received on the {interface}
+arp_notify - BOOLEAN
+ Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
+ 0 - (default): do nothing
+ 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
+ or hardware address changes.
+
arp_accept - BOOLEAN
Define behavior when gratuitous arp replies are received:
0 - drop gratuitous arp frames