bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them
authorVeaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:39:19 +0000 (12:39 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 2 Mar 2014 19:54:10 +0000 (14:54 -0500)
commit285727600fa3714051cda1c21f20a8a3842f3dd8
treeef97e72ed7060e044216ee3d3cc8d1ccb7cb6b5e
parent750f679cfc8323342f1663c69c99be686f79f3ff
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>
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c