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bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validation
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Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp
validation works.

Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Veaceslav Falico authored and David S. Miller committed Jun 25, 2013
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such a situation, validation of backup slaves must be
disabled.

The validation of ARP requests on backup slaves is mainly
helping bonding to decide which slaves are more likely to
work in case of the active slave failure, it doesn't really
guarantee that the backup slave will work if it's selected
as the next active slave.

This option is useful in network configurations in which
multiple bonding hosts are concurrently issuing ARPs to one or
more targets beyond a common switch. Should the link between
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