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Commit d7d35c68 authored by Veaceslav Falico's avatar Veaceslav Falico Committed by David S. Miller
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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: default avatarVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent aeea64ac

Documentation/networking/bonding.txt

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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