bonding: Send more than one gratuitous ARP when slave takes over
With IPoIB, reception of gratuitous ARP by neighboring hosts is essential for a successful change of slaves in case of failure. Otherwise, they won't learn about the HW address change and need to wait a long time until the neighboring system gives up and sends an ARP request to learn the new HW address. This patch decreases the chance for a lost of a gratuitous ARP packet by sending it more than once. The number retries is configurable and can be set with a module param. Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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