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    • Brian Haley's avatar
      bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover · 305d552a
      Brian Haley authored
      
      This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices,
      especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses
      configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko.
      
      - Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the
         IPv6-specific routines.  Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds
         are supported.
      
      - Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited
         IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event.
         Default is 1.
      
      - Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions:
      
         ndisc_build_skb()
         ndisc_send_skb()
      
         These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to
         add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends
         shouldn't be asked to do this.  These two routines are basically
         __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order.
      
      - Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond
         support to 3.4.0.
      
      On failover, this new code will generate one packet:
      
      - An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch
         learn that the address has moved to the new slave.
      
      Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good
      behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
      305d552a
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