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Commit 7893b249 authored by Moni Shoua's avatar Moni Shoua Committed by Jeff Garzik
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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: default avatarMoni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
parent 8047637c
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