svn commit: r306577 - head/sys/netinet

Eric van Gyzen eric at vangyzen.net
Sun Oct 30 19:46:01 UTC 2016


On 10/30/16 4:44 AM, Kubilay Kocak wrote:
> On 2/10/2016 12:42 PM, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
>> Author: vangyzen Date: Sun Oct  2 01:42:45 2016 New Revision: 306577
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/306577
>>
>> Log: Add GARP retransmit capability
>
> Thanks for this David & Eric
>
> I presume this is (or would be) quite complementary to D4111 [1]
> (Gratuitous ARP's for lagg(4) failover) when it lands? I'm thinking
> particularly given the various states upstream switch ports can have
> during topology changes.
>
> [1] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4111

Yes, I expect it would be nicely complementary.  The disruption of a 
topology change increases the chance of a dropped packet, so it would be 
wise to retransmit the GARP sent by lagg(4).

Eric


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