Subject: Re: when using arp monitoring with bonding, why use broadcast arps?

From: Jay Vosburgh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:20:56 -0800

Chris Friesen <[email-masked]> wrote:
[...]
>Is there any particular reason why the bonding code couldn't use unicast
>arp packets if the "arp_ip_target" has a valid entry in the sender's arp
>table?

	It ought to be a pretty straightforward change to have the
bond_arp_send() function perform a neigh_lookup() prior to calling
arp_create(), and use the result of the lookup (if any) in the
arp_create() call.

	So, no, with the caveat that I haven't tried it, I don't see a
reason that bonding couldn't do what you're looking for.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, [email-masked]