From: Andy Gospodarek <gospo@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:32:00 -0500 Subject: [net] bonding: update docs for arp_ip_target behavior Message-id: 20081105213200.GK3714@gospo.rdu.redhat.com O-Subject: [RHEL5.3 PATCH] bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behavior Bugzilla: 468870 RH-Acked-by: David Miller <davem@redhat.com> RH-Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> RH-Acked-by: John W. Linville <linville@redhat.com> This is a patch I did upstream that needs to roll into RHEL: commit 3f8b4b13785c2737413d3241c21c7c86a41535ef Author: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Date: Wed Oct 22 11:19:48 2008 +0000 bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behavior This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1. After that the IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the module option. This will resolve RHBZ 468870. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index a0cda06..2c9a7b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -872,17 +872,19 @@ USERCTL=no NETMASK, NETWORK and BROADCAST) to match your network configuration. For later versions of initscripts, such as that found with Fedora -7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, and, -indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0 +7 (or later) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 (or later), it is possible, +and, indeed, preferable, to specify the bonding options in the ifcfg-bond0 file, e.g. a line of the format: -BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.254" +BONDING_OPTS="mode=active-backup arp_interval=60 arp_ip_target=192.168.1.254" will configure the bond with the specified options. The options specified in BONDING_OPTS are identical to the bonding module parameters -except for the arp_ip_target field. Each target should be included as a -separate option and should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be -added to the list of queried targets, e.g., +except for the arp_ip_target field when using versions of initscripts older +than and 8.57 (Fedora 8) and 8.45.19 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2). When +using older versions each target should be included as a separate option and +should be preceded by a '+' to indicate it should be added to the list of +queried targets, e.g., arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.1 arp_ip_target=+192.168.1.2 @@ -890,7 +892,7 @@ added to the list of queried targets, e.g., options via BONDING_OPTS, it is not necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf. - For older versions of initscripts that do not support + For even older versions of initscripts that do not support BONDING_OPTS, it is necessary to edit /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/modprobe.conf, depending upon your distro) to load the bonding module with your desired options when the bond0 interface is brought up. The