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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/igb.txt | 13 |
3 files changed, 45 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt index ee496eb2f4a6..88d4afbdef98 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/batman-adv.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[state: 27-01-2011] +[state: 17-04-2011] BATMAN-ADV ---------- @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ duce the overhead to a minimum. It does not depend on any (other) network driver, and can be used on wifi as well as ethernet lan, vpn, etc ... (anything with ethernet-style layer 2). + CONFIGURATION ------------- @@ -160,13 +161,13 @@ face. Each entry can/has to have the following values: -> "TQ mac value" - src mac's link quality towards mac address of a neighbor originator's interface which is being used for routing --> "HNA mac" - HNA announced by source mac +-> "TT mac" - TT announced by source mac -> "PRIMARY" - this is a primary interface -> "SEC mac" - secondary mac address of source (requires preceding PRIMARY) The TQ value has a range from 4 to 255 with 255 being the best. -The HNA entries are showing which hosts are connected to the mesh +The TT entries are showing which hosts are connected to the mesh via bat0 or being bridged into the mesh network. The PRIMARY/SEC values are only applied on primary interfaces @@ -199,7 +200,7 @@ abled during run time. Following log_levels are defined: 0 - All debug output disabled 1 - Enable messages related to routing / flooding / broadcasting -2 - Enable route or hna added / changed / deleted +2 - Enable route or tt entry added / changed / deleted 3 - Enable all messages The debug output can be changed at runtime using the file @@ -207,7 +208,7 @@ The debug output can be changed at runtime using the file # echo 2 > /sys/class/net/bat0/mesh/log_level -will enable debug messages for when routes or HNAs change. +will enable debug messages for when routes or TTs change. BATCTL diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index e27202bb8d75..675612ff41ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver HOWTO - Latest update: 23 September 2009 + Latest update: 27 April 2011 Initial release : Thomas Davis <tadavis at lbl.gov> Corrections, HA extensions : 2000/10/03-15 : @@ -585,25 +585,23 @@ mode chosen. num_grat_arp - - Specifies the number of gratuitous ARPs to be issued after a - failover event. One gratuitous ARP is issued immediately after - the failover, subsequent ARPs are sent at a rate of one per link - monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). - - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for - bonding version 3.3.0. - num_unsol_na - Specifies the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements - to be issued after a failover event. One unsolicited NA is issued - immediately after the failover. + Specify the number of peer notifications (gratuitous ARPs and + unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a + failover event. As soon as the link is up on the new slave + (possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the + bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at + each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever + is active) if the number is greater than 1. - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - affects only the active-backup mode. This option was added for - bonding version 3.4.0. + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. These options + affect only the active-backup mode. These options were added for + bonding versions 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 respectively. + + From Linux 2.6.40 and bonding version 3.7.1, these notifications + are generated by the ipv4 and ipv6 code and the numbers of + repetitions cannot be set independently. primary @@ -772,8 +770,17 @@ resend_igmp a failover event. One membership report is issued immediately after the failover, subsequent packets are sent in each 200ms interval. - The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. This option - was added for bonding version 3.7.0. + The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. A value of 0 + prevents the IGMP membership report from being issued in response + to the failover event. + + This option is useful for bonding modes balance-rr (0), active-backup + (1), balance-tlb (5) and balance-alb (6), in which a failover can + switch the IGMP traffic from one slave to another. Therefore a fresh + IGMP report must be issued to cause the switch to forward the incoming + IGMP traffic over the newly selected slave. + + This option was added for bonding version 3.7.0. 3. Configuring Bonding Devices ============================== diff --git a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt index 98953c0d5342..9a2a037194a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/igb.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/igb.txt @@ -93,6 +93,19 @@ Additional Configurations REQUIREMENTS: MSI-X support is required for Multiqueue. If MSI-X is not found, the system will fallback to MSI or to Legacy interrupts. + MAC and VLAN anti-spoofing feature + ---------------------------------- + When a malicious driver attempts to send a spoofed packet, it is dropped by + the hardware and not transmitted. An interrupt is sent to the PF driver + notifying it of the spoof attempt. + + When a spoofed packet is detected the PF driver will send the following + message to the system log (displayed by the "dmesg" command): + + Spoof event(s) detected on VF(n) + + Where n=the VF that attempted to do the spoofing. + Support ======= |