From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: willy tarreau <wtarreau@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:59:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDDDF6A.B823F5C3@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011029222609.81860.qmail@web20501.mail.yahoo.com>
willy tarreau wrote:
> the 2.4 driver provides a mode which sends ARP packets
> to test the link (far more reliable than MII), and the
> appropriate ioctl for the NIC switch-over you need. It
> is available to user through ifenslave -c bond0 eth0
> for example.
Are there issues with using MII to detect link state? I thought it was fairly
reliable...
How are you using arp packets to detect if the link is up? Sending it out to
your own MAC address?
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-29 22:57 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
2001-10-29 22:32 ` willy tarreau
2001-10-29 22:26 ` willy tarreau
2001-10-29 22:59 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
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
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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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