net: add ARP notify option for devices

This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP
when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for
clusters or virtualization.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index c7712787933c..ff3f219ee4d7 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER
         The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used
         when ARP request is received on the {interface}
 
+arp_notify - BOOLEAN
+        Define mode for notification of address and device changes.
+        0 - (default): do nothing
+        1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up
+            or hardware address changes.
+
 arp_accept - BOOLEAN
         Define behavior when gratuitous arp replies are received:
         0 - drop gratuitous arp frames