Commit d7d35c68 authored by Veaceslav Falico's avatar Veaceslav Falico Committed by David S. Miller

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: default avatarVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent aeea64ac
......@@ -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
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