In article <20020212.205809.70219775.davem@redhat.com> you wrote: > Can you trace the value of dev->gflags for me through all of these > actions? It should contain IFF_PROMISC when set by this bit of code: the problem is here: case SIOCGIFFLAGS: /* Get interface flags */ - ifr->ifr_flags = (dev->flags&~(IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI)) + ifr->ifr_flags = (dev->flags&~(IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI|IFF_RUNNING)) |(dev->gflags&(IFF_PROMISC|IFF_ALLMULTI)); + if (netif_running(dev) && netif_carrier_ok(dev)) + ifr->ifr_flags |= IFF_RUNNING; return 0; case SIOCSIFFLAGS: /* Set interface flags */ @@ -1466,6 +2113,9 @@ this is net/dev.c and it is fixed in some recent 2.4.x, dont ask me which. Greetings Bernd - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
