Re: [Xen-devel] Stimulating domains to send gratuitous ARPs

["Zhu Han" <schumi.han@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/5/07, Graham, Simon <Simon.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree it's not good. However, in the example I quoted with a bond
> underneath the bridge, the netbridge code doesn't even know there are
> two paths or that it should send an update (in fact, there would be no
> update since the port config hasn't changed as far as the bridge code is
> concerned).
It's not a problem only for Xen.  So, you may find a solution between
bond device driver and bridge code.

So, the bond device driver broadcast a netlink message and then the
usr mode helper tells bridge to broadcast the mac address in its
forwarding table. :-)

You may need help from linux net-devel.

> Simon

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best regards,
hanzhu

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