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authorVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>2014-02-28 12:39:19 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-02 14:54:10 -0500
commit285727600fa3714051cda1c21f20a8a3842f3dd8 (patch)
treeef97e72ed7060e044216ee3d3cc8d1ccb7cb6b5e /drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
parent750f679cfc8323342f1663c69c99be686f79f3ff (diff)
bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them
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> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
index 12948b33451..12861e37d52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
@@ -2155,8 +2155,13 @@ static void bond_arp_send_all(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *slave)
rt = ip_route_output(dev_net(bond->dev), targets[i], 0,
RTO_ONLINK, 0);
if (IS_ERR(rt)) {
- pr_debug("%s: no route to arp_ip_target %pI4\n",
- bond->dev->name, &targets[i]);
+ /* there's no route to target - try to send arp
+ * probe to generate any traffic (arp_validate=0)
+ */
+ if (bond->params.arp_validate && net_ratelimit())
+ pr_warn("%s: no route to arp_ip_target %pI4 and arp_validate is set\n",
+ bond->dev->name, &targets[i]);
+ bond_arp_send(slave->dev, ARPOP_REQUEST, targets[i], 0, 0);
continue;
}