On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 06:59:48AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <20001007163641.A14835@gruyere.muc.suse.de> you wrote: > > There is also another path. Linux already maintains a timer that > > could tell it easily when a link makes no progress anymore: > > how about the solution in the bonding driver, checking the sendq for > overrun, this is not the fastest thing, but it should detect at least lost > links quite good? The neighbour timer already does that fine and it could be easily patched into multipath routing (e.g. teql already uses it) The problem is just the recovery after you turned off a link. You need some protocol that probes the link and notes when it works again, preferably without wasting data packets on it. `wasting real packets' would actually mean wasting complete routes for some time. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
