Name

netif_notify_peers — notify network peers about existence of dev

Synopsis

void netif_notify_peers (struct net_device * dev);
 

Arguments

dev

network device

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.