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From: Laurent Deniel <deniel@worldnet.fr>
To: willy tarreau <wtarreau@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:17:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDDD55C.56EDE4E0@worldnet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011029133921.74466.qmail@web20508.mail.yahoo.com> <3BDDB51C.4095AF84@worldnet.fr>

Laurent Deniel wrote:
> 
> Currently only the link status is used to monitor a NIC.
> So it would be nice if an ioctl was available to force a NIC switch-over
> (especially in active-backup policy). This could be used by a user-space
> daemon in case for instance no traffic is detected.
> 
> I see that the bonding driver is included in 2.2.18, what is its status
> in 2.4.x ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent

Hmm, it seems that a lot of good stuff (e.g. ARP monitoring and
SIOCBONDCHANGEACTIVE ioctl) are implemented in the bonding patch for 2.4.13.
Will it be included in the mainstream 2.4.x kernel or is it a 2.5 thing ?

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-29 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-29 13:39 Ethernet NIC dual homing willy tarreau
2001-10-29 19:59 ` Laurent Deniel
2001-10-29 22:17   ` Laurent Deniel [this message]
2001-10-29 22:32     ` willy tarreau
2001-10-29 22:26   ` willy tarreau
2001-10-29 22:59     ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-29 23:07       ` willy tarreau
2001-10-30  2:33       ` Dan Hollis
2001-10-30  2:55         ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-30  3:15           ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-10-30  3:30             ` Jonathan Lundell
2001-10-30  4:57               ` Dan Hollis
2001-10-30 15:33               ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-30  4:55           ` Dan Hollis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-30 11:14 Chemolli Francesco (USI)
2001-10-30 11:05 Chemolli Francesco (USI)
2001-10-30 11:33 ` Alan Cox
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10110281727070.5138-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-10-28 22:42 ` Laurent Deniel
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10110281248320.5138-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-10-28 22:23 ` Laurent Deniel
2001-10-28 17:23 Laurent Deniel
2001-10-29 13:24 ` Martin Eriksson

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