On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:49:20AM -0800, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > One place where you might want to know: an HA system where a > redundant interface is available to be configured in place of an > active interface. We'd like to know the state of the link on the > backup interface, which is logically down, as an indication that it's > hooked up and ready to go. It's exactly under these conditions that I discovered the problem. None of the interface was usable by the bonding driver, although one of them was properly connected ! > It's unfortunate that the two conditions are conflated by most net drivers. IMHO, saying "most net drivers" is unfair : tg3, tulip, 3c59x, starfire, realtek, sis900, dl2k, pcnet32, and IIRC sunhme are OK. eepro100 is nearly OK but has this annoying bug, and only older 10 Mbps drivers don't report their status, often because the chip itself doesn't know. 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
