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Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>

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+.. Open Infrastructure: service-tools
+
+.. Copyright (C) 2014-2022 Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net>
+..
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0+
+..
+.. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.. the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+.. (at your option) any later version.
+..
+.. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.. GNU General Public License for more details.
+..
+.. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.. along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+==========
+linux-i40e
+==========
+
+------------------------------------------------------------
+setting recommended options for the Linux i40e device driver
+------------------------------------------------------------
+
+:manual section: 1
+:manual group: Open Infrastructure
+
+Synopsis
+========
+
+| **linux-i40e** start|stop|status
+
+Description
+===========
+
+**linux-i40e** sets all recommended options for the Linux i40e device driver.
+
+Recommended options
+===================
+
+| **Enabling disable-fw-lldp**
+| Many Intel network cards such as the X700 Series drop LLDP pakets by default.
+| When using LACP (802.1ad) this has the effect that after a reboot of one switch,
+| the bond interfaces do not recover. Disabling the firewalling of LLDP pakets on
+| the network card allows the operating system (= Linux kernel) to actually recieve
+| the pakets and re-establish the bonded connection.
+
+| **Enabling link-down-on-close**
+| Many Intel network cards such as the X700 Series do not take down the link
+| when the corresponding interface is deconfigured. This is in contrast to the
+| consumer (Intel) network cards that usually do this. Therefore, without enabling
+| the link-down-on-close, most assumptions of HA stacks (e.g. pacemaker/corosync)
+| are not met and can lead to various unwanted effects. Enabling this options
+| restores the usual behaviour.
+
+See also
+========
+
+| ethtool(8),
+| https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/i40e.txt
+
+Homepage
+========
+
+More information about service-tools and the Open Infrastructure project can be
+found on the homepage (https://open-infrastructure.net).
+
+Contact
+=======
+
+Bug reports, feature requests, help, patches, support and everything else are
+welcome on the Open Infrastructure Software Mailing List
+<software@lists.open-infrastructure.net>.
+
+Debian specific bugs can also be reported in the Debian Bug Tracking System
+(https://bugs.debian.org).
+
+Authors
+=======
+
+service-tools were written by Daniel Baumann
+<daniel.baumann@open-infrastructure.net> and others.