From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Jonathan Lundell <jlundell@pobox.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:33:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDEC82E.C47C88CD@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0110291831160.9540-100000@anime.net> <p05100304b803c6908755@[10.128.7.49]> <9rl60r$g50$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <p05100309b803cdfa4552@[10.128.7.49]>
Jonathan Lundell wrote:
> But what I meant was bonding's use of ARP to determine whether the
> connection is good (or rather, bad, even when the link is up), when
> the connection is routed via level 3. Seems to me you'd need a level
> 3 protocol (say ICMP) rather than ARP.
This is what we've done here at work. We use a combination of MII for fast
detection of local link loss, and ICMP ping packets to highly available hosts to
test the network path (with somewhat slower response time).
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-30 15:30 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
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 [this message]
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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