On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:07:10AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > No, I meant what I said: You have to tell many drivers to bring the > interface > up before they will attempt (or at least report) link negotiation. > You do NOT have to give it an IP address or add any routes to it. ah, OK. No, anyway, it is just a matter of wrongly detecting link state after the link has been plugged while the interface was already UP, no matter if an IP was set or not. > But, I don't know about your particular program, I just suspect it > is related to detecting link state. I think tg3 detects link when > the interface is not UP, if you have some tg3 nics maybe you could > try with them? As far as I have tested, tg3 are fine WRT this. Willy - : 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
