bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zero

[linux-2.6] / Documentation / networking / bonding.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 8e6b8d3c7410eeb2470af2f1d1b45c0983a8aa9d..7fa7fe71d7a8310c00c8cade78688ece2d5250c4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ max_bonds
        Specifies the number of bonding devices to create for this
        instance of the bonding driver.  E.g., if max_bonds is 3, and
        the bonding driver is not already loaded, then bond0, bond1
-       and bond2 will be created.  The default value is 1.
+       and bond2 will be created.  The default value is 1.  Specifying
+       a value of 0 will load bonding, but will not create any devices.
 
 miimon
 
@@ -539,6 +540,17 @@ mode
                swapped with the new curr_active_slave that was
                chosen.
 
+num_grat_arp
+
+       Specifies the number of gratuitous ARPs to be issued after a
+       failover event.  One gratuitous ARP is issued immediately after
+       the failover, subsequent ARPs are sent at a rate of one per link
+       monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active).
+
+       The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1.  This option
+       affects only the active-backup mode.  This option was added for
+       bonding version 3.3.0.
+
 primary
 
        A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the