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Commit f5b2b966 authored by Jay Vosburgh's avatar Jay Vosburgh Committed by Jeff Garzik
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[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor



	Add logic to check ARP request / reply packets used for ARP
monitor link integrity checking.

	The current method simply examines the slave device to see if it
has sent and received traffic; this can be fooled by extraneous traffic.
For example, if multiple hosts running bonding are behind a common
switch, the probe traffic from the multiple instances of bonding will
update the tx/rx times on each other's slave devices.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
parent 70298705
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