From 305d552accae6afb859c493ebc7d98ca3371dae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Haley Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:51:14 -0800 Subject: bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failover This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices, especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko. - Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the IPv6-specific routines. Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds are supported. - Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event. Default is 1. - Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions: ndisc_build_skb() ndisc_send_skb() These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends shouldn't be asked to do this. These two routines are basically __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order. - Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond support to 3.4.0. On failover, this new code will generate one packet: - An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch learn that the address has moved to the new slave. Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index 0f3e6b2d2808..f1d0a1371695 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ config DUMMY config BONDING tristate "Bonding driver support" depends on INET + depends on IPV6 || IPV6=n ---help--- Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, -- cgit v1.2.3 From fd9abb3d97c2ab883e4732ec1214fe64190236e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Glendinning Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 00:35:37 +0000 Subject: SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver Attached is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x families of embedded ethernet controllers. There is an existing smc911x driver in the tree; this is intended to replace it. Dustin McIntire (the author of the smc911x driver) has expressed his support for switching to this driver. This driver contains workarounds for all known hardware issues, and has been tested on all flavours of the chip on multiple architectures. This driver now uses phylib, so this patch also adds support for the device's internal phy Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning Signed-off-by: Bahadir Balban Signed-off-by: Dustin Mcintire Signed-off-by: Bill Gatliff Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/net/Kconfig') diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index f1d0a1371695..74a18a7f8f40 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/Kconfig @@ -979,6 +979,20 @@ config SMC911X called smc911x. If you want to compile it as a module, say M here and read +config SMSC911X + tristate "SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x families embedded ethernet support" + depends on ARM || SUPERH + select CRC32 + select MII + select PHYLIB + ---help--- + Say Y here if you want support for SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x families + of ethernet controllers. + + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read + . The module + will be called smsc911x. + config NET_VENDOR_RACAL bool "Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards" depends on ISA -- cgit v1.2.3