kernel_optimize_test/drivers/net/bonding
Veaceslav Falico 285727600f bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them
Currently we're only sending arp requests if we have a route to the target
(and, thus, can find out the source ip address).

There are some use cases, however, where we don't want/need to set an ip
address (or set up a specific route) for bonding to use arp monitoring *for
traffic generation*. We can easily send arp probes (arp requests with src
ip == 0) to generate arp broadcast responses from the target ip and use
them for determining if the target is up.

This, obviously, won't work with arp validation - because we don't have the
ip address set and, thus, will filter out the responses. So in that case -
print a warning.

CC: François CACHEREUL <f.cachereul@alphalink.fr>
CC: Zhenjie Chen <zhchen@redhat.com>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-03-02 14:54:10 -05:00
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bond_3ad.c bonding: Invert test 2014-02-19 15:37:51 -05:00
bond_3ad.h Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-02-19 01:24:22 -05:00
bond_alb.c bonding: Remove unnecessary else 2014-02-19 15:37:51 -05:00
bond_alb.h drivers/net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:55 -05:00
bond_debugfs.c bonding: Convert pr_warning to pr_warn, neatening 2014-02-17 00:29:23 -05:00
bond_main.c bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them 2014-03-02 14:54:10 -05:00
bond_netlink.c bonding: Neaten pr_<level> 2014-02-17 00:29:23 -05:00
bond_options.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2014-02-19 01:24:22 -05:00
bond_options.h bonding: convert slaves to use the new option API 2014-01-22 15:38:44 -08:00
bond_procfs.c bonding: use rcu_dereference() to access curr_active_slave 2014-02-24 18:28:23 -05:00
bond_sysfs_slave.c bonding: change name of sysfs dir for bonding slaves 2014-01-22 21:57:05 -08:00
bond_sysfs.c bonding: Neaten pr_<level> 2014-02-17 00:29:23 -05:00
bonding.h bonding: rename last_arp_rx to last_rx 2014-02-18 16:47:16 -05:00
Makefile bonding: add sysfs /slave dir for bond slave devices. 2014-01-17 18:51:58 -08:00