From: "Nicolas de Pesloüan" <nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>,
Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding and ifenslave version.
Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 23:20:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3B0D10.4020907@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110804095704.46c453d0@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
Le 04/08/2011 18:57, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:31:38 +0200
> Nicolas de Pesloüan<nicolas.2p.debian@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip>
>> Or do you mean, to replace ifenslave (.c) by a shell script that use netlink internally? Are all the
>> bonding options available through netlink? I remember many conversation about using netlink for
>> bonding setup, but don't remember seeing that in the actual code.
>
> The sysfs interface is the least desirable.
> The ifenslave script would just call 'ip link'
For as far as I know, ip link is able to enslave and to detach a slave, but not to change the active
slave. So I think you cannot mimic the -c|--change-active option of ifenslave just using iproute. Do
I miss something?
That being said, I'm not sure this particular option is the most used one, but...
Nicolas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-04 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-02 20:06 [PATCH] bonding: document two undocumented options Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 6:43 ` bonding and ifenslave version Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 19:03 ` Andy Gospodarek
2011-08-03 19:38 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 20:07 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-08-03 20:38 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-04 5:31 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-04 16:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-04 21:20 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan [this message]
2011-08-03 10:44 ` [PATCH] bonding: document two undocumented options David Miller
2011-08-03 20:01 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-03 20:59 ` Jay Vosburgh
2011-08-04 5:41 ` Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-06 17:06 ` [PATCH v3] " Nicolas de Pesloüan
2011-08-08 5:16 ` David Miller
2011-08-03 20:02 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas de Pesloüan
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