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| @@ -303,6 +303,12 @@ arp_validate | |||
| 303 | such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be | 303 | such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be |
| 304 | disabled. | 304 | disabled. |
| 305 | 305 | ||
| 306 | The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly | ||
| 307 | helping bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to | ||
| 308 | work in case of the active slave failure, it doesn't really | ||
| 309 | guarantee that the backup slave will work if it's selected | ||
| 310 | as the next active slave. | ||
| 311 | |||
| 306 | This option is useful in network configurations in which | 312 | This option is useful in network configurations in which |
| 307 | multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or | 313 | multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or |
| 308 | more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between | 314 | more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between |