Thanks Jay. This is a dedicated link between our two machines. The only thing provisioned on it is the bond device and the IP for that bond device. There are no other addresses on it and no VLANs above it.
The arp_ip_target is not reachable via any other interface. For example: ip route get 169.254.88.1 169.254.88.1 dev bond0 src 169.254.99.1 Thanks, Howard From: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosbu...@canonical.com> Sent: Monday, January 4, 2021 9:51 PM To: Finer, Howard <hfi...@rbbn.com> Cc: a...@greyhouse.net; vfal...@gmail.com; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: bonding driver issue when configured for active/backup and using ARP monitoring ________________________________________ NOTICE: This email was received from an EXTERNAL sender ________________________________________ Finer, Howard <mailto:hfi...@rbbn.com> wrote: >Please advise if there is any update here, and if not how we can go about >getting an update to the driver to rectify the issue. As it happens, I've been looking at this today, and have a couple of questions about your configuration: - Is there an IP address on the same subnet as the arp_ip_target configured directly on the bond, or on a VLAN logically above the bond? - Is the "arp_ip_target" address reachable via an interface other than the bond (or VLAN above it)? This can be checked via "ip route get [arp_ip_target]", i.e., if the target address for bond0 is http://1.2.3.4, the command "ip route get http://1.2.3.4" will return something like http://1.2.3.4 dev bond0 src [...] If an interface other than bond0 (or a VLAN above it) is listed, then there's a path to the arp_ip_target that doesn't go through the bond. The ARP monitor logic can only handle a limited set of configurations, so if your configuration is outside of that it can misbehave in some ways. -J --- -Jay Vosburgh, mailto:jay.vosbu...@canonical.com