bonding: send arp requests even if there's no route to them
Currently we're only sending arp requests if we have a route to the target (and, thus, can find out the source ip address). There are some use cases, however, where we don't want/need to set an ip address (or set up a specific route) for bonding to use arp monitoring *for traffic generation*. We can easily send arp probes (arp requests with src ip == 0) to generate arp broadcast responses from the target ip and use them for determining if the target is up. This, obviously, won't work with arp validation - because we don't have the ip address set and, thus, will filter out the responses. So in that case - print a warning. CC: François CACHEREUL <f.cachereul@alphalink.fr> CC: Zhenjie Chen <zhchen@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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