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authorVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>2013-06-24 11:49:33 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-06-25 16:58:38 -0700
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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 <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -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