From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:44:29 +0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: Network Device Naming mechanism and policy Message-Id: <20091012184429.GA5190@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20091009140000.GA18765@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091009210909.GA9836@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <20091009194401.036da080@nehalam> <20091010044056.GA5350@mock.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <20091010052308.GA12458@kroah.com> <7e84ed60910111410g52ffd52bjec62576570d4b460@mail.gmail.com> <20091012030008.GA8436@kroah.com> <7e84ed60910121135j656d1d9s8d84757e7e3d0078@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7e84ed60910121135j656d1d9s8d84757e7e3d0078@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Rob Townley Cc: Greg KH , Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org, Narendra_K@dell.com, jordan_hargrave@dell.com On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Rob Townley wrote: > > Again, is what we currently have broken? =A0I am confused as to what th= is > > is referring to. >=20 > Yes, ping and traceroute are broken at least on Fedora, CentOS, and busyb= ox. > On a multinic, multigatewayed machine, passing ethX instead of the IP > address will give the false result: "Destination Host Unreachable" > when the machine's default gateway is reached thru the other nic. In > the following example, the default gateway is thru eth1, not eth0. Unrelated to this thread. We're having a hard enough time making sure this conversation accurately reflects the views and needs of everyone involved. Please let's not throw in another tangent. Thanks, Matt --=20 Matt Domsch Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux