[ovs-dev] [PATCH] bond: Send gratuitous ARPs when load balancing.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
[lots of information]
> The OVS SLB mode has a lot more information about what's going on than
> the bridged-SLB and does proper rebalancing so sending a GARP is a much
> more feasible proposition. I wouldn't let the fact the bridged-SLB
> doesn't/can't do it stop you if you think it makes sense.

Thanks for all the information.  I verified that the Citrix kernel SLB
implementation doesn't sends GARP on rebalance, by looking at
bond_alb.c in
linux-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.xs5.0.0.394.644/drivers/net/bonding.