LinuxQuestions.org - [2.6.34]ARP replies from inactive slave in active-backup bond.

Hello!

Yesterday i updated linux kernel to the version 2.6.34, and bonding driver started to send out arp replies from both interfaces.
With 2.6.32 arp-replies were being sent from active slave only.

Code:

nas1 ~ # tcpdump -i eth1 ether src 00:15:17:99:46:b8

tcpdump: WARNING: eth1: no IPv4 address assigned

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes

16:44:07.580410 arp reply ip.add.re.ss is-at 00:15:17:99:46:b8 (oui Unknown)

16:44:07.625653 arp reply ip.add.re.ss is-at 00:15:17:99:46:b8 (oui Unknown)



nas1 ~ # tcpdump -i eth0 ether src 00:15:17:99:46:b8

tcpdump: WARNING: eth0: no IPv4 address assigned

tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode

listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 68 bytes

16:46:36.606762 arp reply ip.add.re.ss is-at 00:15:17:99:46:b8 (oui Unknown)

Anyone experienced this?

Gentoo Linux, Xen kernel 2.6.34
Bonding mode - active-backup
Link monitoring method - ARP (MII-mode is not applicable, because if one switch in stack fails, full recover takes about 80 sec)

Code:

nas1 ~ # cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.6.0 (September 26, 2009)



Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup)

Primary Slave: None

Currently Active Slave: eth0

MII Status: up

MII Polling Interval (ms): 0

Up Delay (ms): 0

Down Delay (ms): 0

ARP Polling Interval (ms): 1000

ARP IP target/s (n.n.n.n form): xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx



Slave Interface: eth0

MII Status: up

Link Failure Count: 0

Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:99:46:b8



Slave Interface: eth1

MII Status: up

Link Failure Count: 1

Permanent HW addr: 00:15:17:99:46:b9

Thanks for advice.
Dmitriy.

Sorry, my english not so good as i want :-)