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docs: net: bonding: remove mentions of trans_start
ARP monitoring no longer depends on dev->last_rx or dev_trans_start(), so delete this information. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
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@@ -1982,15 +1982,6 @@ uses the response as an indication that the link is operating. This
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gives some assurance that traffic is actually flowing to and from one
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or more peers on the local network.
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The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify
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that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to
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date the last receive time, dev->last_rx. Drivers that use NETIF_F_LLTX
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flag must also update netdev_queue->trans_start. If they do not, then the
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ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and
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those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc)
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shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that
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your device driver is not updating last_rx and trans_start.
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7.2 Configuring Multiple ARP Targets
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