From 025890b4ed433b9c9e0f221bb806d42d049c87fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolas=20de=20Peslo=C3=BCan?= Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 07:06:39 +0000 Subject: bonding: document two undocumented options. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Commit 655f8919d549ad1872e24d826b6ce42530516d2e bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad and commit ebd8e4977a87cb81d93c62a9bff0102a9713722f bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation for those options. V2: add the default value for both options. V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 5dd960d75174..91df678fb7f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -238,6 +238,18 @@ ad_select This option was added in bonding version 3.4.0. +all_slaves_active + + Specifies that duplicate frames (received on inactive ports) should be + dropped (0) or delivered (1). + + Normally, bonding will drop duplicate frames (received on inactive + ports), which is desirable for most users. But there are some times + it is nice to allow duplicate frames to be delivered. + + The default value is 0 (drop duplicate frames received on inactive + ports). + arp_interval Specifies the ARP link monitoring frequency in milliseconds. @@ -433,6 +445,23 @@ miimon determined. See the High Availability section for additional information. The default value is 0. +min_links + + Specifies the minimum number of links that must be active before + asserting carrier. It is similar to the Cisco EtherChannel min-links + feature. This allows setting the minimum number of member ports that + must be up (link-up state) before marking the bond device as up + (carrier on). This is useful for situations where higher level services + such as clustering want to ensure a minimum number of low bandwidth + links are active before switchover. This option only affect 802.3ad + mode. + + The default value is 0. This will cause carrier to be asserted (for + 802.3ad mode) whenever there is an active aggregator, regardless of the + number of available links in that aggregator. Note that, because an + aggregator cannot be active without at least one available link, + setting this option to 0 or to 1 has the exact same effect. + mode Specifies one of the bonding policies. The default is -- cgit v1.2.3