From 285727600fa3714051cda1c21f20a8a3842f3dd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Veaceslav Falico Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:39:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 CC: Zhenjie Chen CC: Jay Vosburgh CC: Andy Gospodarek Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed