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| author | Veaceslav Falico | 2014-02-28 12:39:19 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller | 2014-03-02 14:54:10 -0500 |
| commit | 285727600fa3714051cda1c21f20a8a3842f3dd8 (patch) | |
| tree | ef97e72ed7060e044216ee3d3cc8d1ccb7cb6b5e /drivers/net | |
| parent | 750f679cfc8323342f1663c69c99be686f79f3ff (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 12948b33451a..12861e37d526 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -2155,8 +2155,13 @@ static void bond_arp_send_all(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *slave) rt = ip_route_output(dev_net(bond->dev), targets[i], 0, RTO_ONLINK, 0); if (IS_ERR(rt)) { - pr_debug("%s: no route to arp_ip_target %pI4\n", - bond->dev->name, &targets[i]); + /* there's no route to target - try to send arp + * probe to generate any traffic (arp_validate=0) + */ + if (bond->params.arp_validate && net_ratelimit()) + pr_warn("%s: no route to arp_ip_target %pI4 and arp_validate is set\n", + bond->dev->name, &targets[i]); + bond_arp_send(slave->dev, ARPOP_REQUEST, targets[i], 0, 0); continue; } |