From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal =?utf-8?B?S3ViZcSNZWs=?= Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bonding: start slaves with link down for ARP monitor Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:27:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1410525.5tCeY2AOxF@alaris> References: <20120414220617.DA8BE45BA2@lion.mk-sys.cz> <20120415002153.4c4e152a@asterix.rh> <19180.1334465333@death.nxdomain> Reply-To: Michal =?utf-8?B?S3ViZcSNZWs=?= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: Flavio Leitner , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andy Gospodarek To: Jay Vosburgh Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:40073 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752616Ab2DPK1P (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 06:27:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19180.1334465333@death.nxdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Saturday 14 of April 2012 21:48EN, Jay Vosburgh wrote: > Anybody got a 10 or 100 card laying around with fast autoneg to > try? Back in the day I used 3c59x and e100s, and I seem to recall > that the 3c59x board I had was pretty speedy at going carrier up. > >Jay? Andy? :) It seems these cards are hard to find these days (I tried to find one in our office but no luck yet). However, I tried an onboard adapter with r8169 driver and patched kernel succeeded to detect carrier in time for bonding driver to start the slave in "up" state (and it started in "down" state with unplugged cable so that the detection is correct). Michal Kubecek