--- nitin panjwani <nitin_rpr@yahoo.com> wrote: > Is there a way to detect the link failure of an > interface. As if we run routing and link shuts on an > interface, down it doesn't bring the interface.. which > is really a bad thing for real time networks. Check the source of the bonding driver (drivers/net/bonding.c), specifically the function bond_check_dev_link(). It tries three ioctl's to find out the link status. I beleive most network drivers at least support one of these ioctls. Hope this helps, Ravi. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
