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authorFlavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>2011-05-25 08:38:58 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-25 17:55:33 -0400
commit94265cf5f731c7df29fdfde262ca3e6d51e6828c (patch)
treee19d43a5e8b19a220a4258a5a9f30d63ffc4bf55 /Documentation/networking
parent9fe0617d9b6d21f700ee9e658e1c9fe3be2fb402 (diff)
bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmp
Improves the documentation about how IGMP resend parameter works, fix two missing checks and coding style issues. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -770,8 +770,17 @@ resend_igmp
a failover event. One membership report is issued immediately after
the failover, subsequent packets are sent in each 200ms interval.
- The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option
- was added for bonding version 3.7.0.
+ The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. A value of 0
+ prevents the IGMP membership report from being issued in response
+ to the failover event.
+
+ This option is useful for bonding modes balance-rr (0), active-backup
+ (1), balance-tlb (5) and balance-alb (6), in which a failover can
+ switch the IGMP traffic from one slave to another. Therefore a fresh
+ IGMP report must be issued to cause the switch to forward the incoming
+ IGMP traffic over the newly selected slave.
+
+ This option was added for bonding version 3.7.0.
3. Configuring Bonding Devices
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