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| author | Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-02-01 01:04:33 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-02-01 01:04:33 -0800 |
| commit | eefef1cf7653cd4e0aaf743c00ae8345086cdc01 (patch) | |
| tree | af97b788658c5bf21ef2ca609c5f43ca59421269 /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | ead731837d142b103eab9870105f50bc40b69255 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index c771278..ff3f219 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 |
