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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index e27202bb8d7..675612ff41a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO - Latest update: 23 September 2009 + Latest update: 27 April 2011 Initial release : Thomas Davis <tadavis at lbl.gov> Corrections, HA extensions : 2000/10/03-15 : @@ -585,25 +585,23 @@ mode chosen. num_grat_arp - - Specifies the number of gratuitous ARPs to be issued after a - failover event. One gratuitous ARP is issued immediately after - the failover, subsequent ARPs are sent at a rate of one per link - monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). - - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for - bonding version 3.3.0. - num_unsol_na - Specifies the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements - to be issued after a failover event. One unsolicited NA is issued - immediately after the failover. + Specify the number of peer notifications (gratuitous ARPs and + unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a + failover event. As soon as the link is up on the new slave + (possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the + bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at + each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever + is active) if the number is greater than 1. - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for - bonding version 3.4.0. + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. These options + affect only the active-backup mode. These options were added for + bonding versions 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 respectively. + + From Linux 2.6.40 and bonding version 3.7.1, these notifications + are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of + repetitions cannot be set independently. primary @@ -772,8 +770,17 @@ resend_igmp a failover event. One membership report is issued immediately after the failover, subsequent packets are sent in each 200ms interval. - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - was added for bonding version 3.7.0. + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. A value of 0 + prevents the IGMP membership report from being issued in response + to the failover event. + + This option is useful for bonding modes balance-rr (0), active-backup + (1), balance-tlb (5) and balance-alb (6), in which a failover can + switch the IGMP traffic from one slave to another. Therefore a fresh + IGMP report must be issued to cause the switch to forward the incoming + IGMP traffic over the newly selected slave. + + This option was added for bonding version 3.7.0. 3. Configuring Bonding Devices ============================== |