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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst index 06c97dcb57ca..e143ab79a960 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/net_failover.rst @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ Overview ======== The net_failover driver provides an automated failover mechanism via APIs -to create and destroy a failover master netdev and mananges a primary and +to create and destroy a failover master netdev and manages a primary and standby slave netdevs that get registered via the generic failover -infrastructrure. +infrastructure. The failover netdev acts a master device and controls 2 slave devices. The original paravirtual interface is registered as 'standby' slave netdev and @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ virtio-net accelerated datapath: STANDBY mode ============================================= net_failover enables hypervisor controlled accelerated datapath to virtio-net -enabled VMs in a transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace chanages. +enabled VMs in a transparent manner with no/minimal guest userspace changes. To support this, the hypervisor needs to enable VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature on the virtio-net interface and assign the same MAC address to both |