From eefef1cf7653cd4e0aaf743c00ae8345086cdc01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 01:04:33 -0800 Subject: net: add ARP notify option for devices This adds another inet device option to enable gratuitous ARP when device is brought up or address change. This is handy for clusters or virtualization. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/networking') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index c7712787933..ff3f219ee4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -782,6 +782,12 @@ arp_ignore - INTEGER The max value from conf/{all,interface}/arp_ignore is used when ARP request is received on the {interface} +arp_notify - BOOLEAN + Define mode for notification of address and device changes. + 0 - (default): do nothing + 1 - Generate gratuitous arp replies when device is brought up + or hardware address changes. + arp_accept - BOOLEAN Define behavior when gratuitous arp replies are received: 0 - drop gratuitous arp frames -- cgit v1.2.3