Teaming failover between ports in active-backup mode is significatly delayed.

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Issue

When testing the failover, using team interface, configured in active-backup mode with arp_ping link watch, it takes 20 seconds for the inactive port to start handling the traffic again.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Team interface in active-backup mode
  • arp_ping link watch

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