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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2013-09-13 11:05:33 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-09-15 22:20:44 -0400 |
| commit | 7eacd03810960823393521063734fc8188446bca (patch) | |
| tree | bea38507321d0f20caf41af8ce79e65ab513717d /Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | |
| parent | d2bb3905ab9bafebd0872ceef9466c32849429d7 (diff) | |
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bonding: Make alb learning packet interval configurable
running bonding in ALB mode requires that learning packets be sent periodically,
so that the switch knows where to send responding traffic. However, depending
on switch configuration, there may not be any need to send traffic at the
default rate of 3 packets per second, which represents little more than wasted
data. Allow the ALB learning packet interval to be made configurable via sysfs
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 87bbcfee2e06..9b28e714831a 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1362,6 +1362,12 @@ To add ARP targets: To remove an ARP target: # echo -192.168.0.100 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/arp_ip_target +To configure the interval between learning packet transmits: +# echo 12 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/lp_interval + NOTE: the lp_inteval is the number of seconds between instances where +the bonding driver sends learning packets to each slaves peer switch. The +default interval is 1 second. + Example Configuration --------------------- We begin with the same example that is shown in section 3.3, |