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net: add ARP notify option for devices

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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 <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-01 01:04:33 -08:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent ead731837d
commit eefef1cf76
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net/ipv4/devinet.c
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@@ -1075,6 +1075,14 @@ static int inetdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long event,
}
}
ip_mc_up(in_dev);
/* fall through */
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
if (IN_DEV_ARP_NOTIFY(in_dev))
arp_send(ARPOP_REQUEST, ETH_P_ARP,
in_dev->ifa_list->ifa_address,
dev,
in_dev->ifa_list->ifa_address,
NULL, dev->dev_addr, NULL);
break;
case NETDEV_DOWN:
ip_mc_down(in_dev);
@@ -1439,6 +1447,7 @@ static struct devinet_sysctl_table {
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_ANNOUNCE, "arp_announce"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_IGNORE, "arp_ignore"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_ACCEPT, "arp_accept"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_RW_ENTRY(ARP_NOTIFY, "arp_notify"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_FLUSHING_ENTRY(NOXFRM, "disable_xfrm"),
DEVINET_SYSCTL_FLUSHING_ENTRY(NOPOLICY, "disable_policy"),