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| author | Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch> | 2019-07-13 16:35:27 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2019-07-13 19:29:21 -0700 |
| commit | 0307d589c4d6f84349afb7a53717baa2392f6a38 (patch) | |
| tree | d8e192e505b7c5cfec022bec121599db9b94bd8f /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | fe4e8db0392a6c2e795eb89ef5fcd86522e66248 (diff) | |
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bonding: add documentation for peer_notif_delay
Ability to tweak the interval between peer notifications has been
added in 07a4ddec3ce9 ("bonding: add an option to specify a delay
between peer notifications") but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index d3e5dd26db12..e3abfbd32f71 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ num_unsol_na unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a failover event. As soon as the link is up on the new slave (possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the - bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at - each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever - is active) if the number is greater than 1. + bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at + the rate specified by peer_notif_delay if the number is + greater than 1. The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. These options affect only the active-backup mode. These options were added for @@ -727,6 +727,16 @@ packets_per_slave The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option has effect only in balance-rr mode. +peer_notif_delay + + Specify the delay, in milliseconds, between each peer + notification (gratuitous ARP and unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor + Advertisement) when they are issued after a failover event. + This delay should be a multiple of the link monitor interval + (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). The default + value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor + interval. + primary A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the |