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authorFlavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>2011-05-25 04:38:58 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-05-25 17:55:33 -0400
commit94265cf5f731c7df29fdfde262ca3e6d51e6828c (patch)
treee19d43a5e8b19a220a4258a5a9f30d63ffc4bf55 /Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
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 a failover event. One membership report is issued immediately after 770 a failover event. One membership report is issued immediately after
771 the failover, subsequent packets are sent in each 200ms interval. 771 the failover, subsequent packets are sent in each 200ms interval.
772 772
773 The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option 773 The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. A value of 0
774 was added for bonding version 3.7.0. 774 prevents the IGMP membership report from being issued in response
775 to the failover event.
776
777 This option is useful for bonding modes balance-rr (0), active-backup
778 (1), balance-tlb (5) and balance-alb (6), in which a failover can
779 switch the IGMP traffic from one slave to another. Therefore a fresh
780 IGMP report must be issued to cause the switch to forward the incoming
781 IGMP traffic over the newly selected slave.
782
783 This option was added for bonding version 3.7.0.
775 784
7763. Configuring Bonding Devices 7853. Configuring Bonding Devices
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