From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:49:33 +0000 (+0200) Subject: bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d7d35c681fb4eae1fab3d93698e26a106ca7e79e;p=deliverable%2Flinux.git bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index e7454fcc9176..adee3b4a75cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ arp_validate such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be disabled. + The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly + helping bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to + work in case of the active slave failure, it doesn't really + guarantee that the backup slave will work if it's selected + as the next active slave. + This option is useful in network configurations in which multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between