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Commit 3f8b4b13 authored by Andy Gospodarek's avatar Andy Gospodarek Committed by Jeff Garzik
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bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behavior 



This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed
for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1.  After that the
IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the
module option.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
parent 237f3e1d

Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

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@@ -922,17 +922,19 @@ USERCTL=no 
NETMASK, NETWORK and BROADCAST) to match your network configuration.



	For later versions of initscripts, such as that found with Fedora

7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, and,

indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0

7 (or later) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible,

and, indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0

file, e.g. a line of the format:



BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.254"

BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=192.168.1.254"



	will configure the bond with the specified options.  The options

specified in BONDING_OPTS are identical to the bonding module parameters

except for the arp_ip_target field.  Each target should be included as a

separate option and should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be

added to the list of queried targets, e.g.,

except for the arp_ip_target field when using versions of initscripts older

than and 8.57 (Fedora 8) and 8.45.19 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2).  When

using older versions each target should be included as a separate option and

should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be added to the list of

queried targets, e.g.,



	arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.1 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.2
@@ -940,7 +942,7 @@ added to the list of queried targets, e.g., 
options via BONDING_OPTS, it is not necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf or

/etc/modprobe.conf.



	For older versions of initscripts that do not support

	For even older versions of initscripts that do not support

BONDING_OPTS, it is necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf (or

/etc/modprobe.conf, depending upon your distro) to load the bonding module

with your desired options when the bond0 interface is brought up.  The