On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:45:04 -0800 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Hi Stephan, > > [...] > > What I noticed is that if you load the driver while the cable is unplugged, > > and then plug it, the MII status says the link is still down. > > Unfortunately, the only e100 I have access to are in prod at a customer's > > and I really cannot make tests there. > > You have to bring the interface 'UP' before it will detect link, > with something like: ifconfig eth2 up > > Could that be the problem? > > Ben Hi Ben, the situation is like this (exactly this works flawlessly with tulip): - unplug all interfaces from the switches - reboot box - plug in _one_ interface - log into the box (yes, network works flawlessly) - start keepalived - now plug in rest of the interfaces - watch keepalived do _nothing_ (seems no UP event shows up) in comparison to: - let all interfaces plugged in - reboot box - log in - start keepalived - watch it work as expected Regards, Stephan - : 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