Name
netif_notify_peers —
notify network peers about existence of dev
Synopsis
void netif_notify_peers ( | struct net_device * dev) ; |
Description
Generate traffic such that interested network peers are aware of
dev
, such as by generating a gratuitous ARP. This may be used when
a device wants to inform the rest of the network about some sort of
reconfiguration such as a failover event or virtual machine
migration.