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authorMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>2015-05-09 00:01:56 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-05-11 10:59:32 -0400
commit74514957552edd4661a4608618121f3c71d4e891 (patch)
tree55a5135cd68d30e3ca507a13f258a51a1dd0abc1 /Documentation
parent6791e4661c4bd3e9f193a84247f2c389578a4336 (diff)
bonding: Allow userspace to set actors' macaddr in an AD-system.
In an AD system, the communication between actor and partner is the business between these two entities. In the current setup anyone on the same L2 can "guess" the LACPDU contents and then possibly send the spoofed LACPDUs and trick the partner causing connectivity issues for the AD system. This patch allows to use a random mac-address obscuring it's identity making it harder for someone in the L2 is do the same thing. This patch allows user-space to choose the mac-address for the AD-system. This mac-address can not be NULL or a Multicast. If the mac-address is set from user-space; kernel will honor it and will not overwrite it. In the absence (value from user space); the logic will default to using the masters' mac as the mac-address for the AD-system. It can be set using example code below - # modprobe bonding mode=4 # sys_mac_addr=$(printf '%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x' \ $(( (RANDOM & 0xFE) | 0x02 )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF ))) # echo $sys_mac_addr > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_actor_system # echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves ... # ip link set bond0 up Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> [jt: fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
index 34946115acec..2c197b68baf0 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
@@ -187,6 +187,18 @@ ad_actor_sys_prio
This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through
SysFs interface.
+ad_actor_system
+
+ In an AD system, this specifies the mac-address for the actor in
+ protocol packet exchanges (LACPDUs). The value cannot be NULL or
+ multicast. It is preferred to have the local-admin bit set for this
+ mac but driver does not enforce it. If the value is not given then
+ system defaults to using the masters' mac address as actors' system
+ address.
+
+ This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through
+ SysFs interface.
+
ad_select
Specifies the 802.3ad aggregation selection logic to use. The