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authorJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2011-10-19 14:30:42 +0200
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@@ -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
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