From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: Problem with e1000 driver from kernel 2.4.23-pre6
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 19:09:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031009190912.4caa8590.skraw@ithnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031009162241.00e93abb.skraw@ithnet.com>
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:22:41 +0200
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just found out that the e1000-driver included in the latest kernel
> 2.4.23-pre6 has a problem cooperating with keepalived. Keepalived uses
> netlink to find out about interfaces being up or down. This works well with
> eepro100 driver from Don Becker (or tulip), but does not work at all with
> e1000. Probably for the same reason mii-tool does not show anything useful
> either. Is this fixable inside the e1000-driver? Should keepalived be fixed
> in any way?
Sorry for answering myself, but it seems both eepro100 and e1000 do the same
thing. I just found out that the problem is not with the driver, but if the
cards' link status is up or down when keepalived is started.
Please sit back and relax as long as I cannot nail the exact cause.
Regards,
Stephan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-09 14:22 Problem with e1000 driver from kernel 2.4.23-pre6 Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-10-09 17:09 ` Stephan von Krawczynski [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20031009190912.4caa8590.skraw@ithnet.com \
--to=skraw@ithnet.com \
--cc=jgarzik@pobox.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox