From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arno@natisbad.org
Cc: brian.haley@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: E1000E/82567LM-3: link reported up too soon
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:54:47 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920.125447.220082714.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878w2wnsyd.fsf@small.ssi.corp>
From: arno@natisbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:57:46 +0200
> On some ethernet devices (at least), link may be reported up (NEWLINK
> received by userspace with flags indicating UP and RUNNING) before the
> interface is really usable. When sending packets as soon as the link is
> available, the first one may be dropped. That's what you see on the
> capture above.
The link being up doesn't mean an address has been assigned to the
interface for the protocol you are using yet.
I think you have to schedule whatever it is you need to make sure it
runs after dhcp successfully complete.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-20 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 13:48 E1000E/82567LM-3: link reported up too soon Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-15 15:07 ` Brian Haley
2010-09-15 15:34 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-15 16:01 ` Brian Haley
2010-09-18 14:14 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-20 18:22 ` David Miller
2010-09-20 18:57 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-20 19:54 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-20 20:09 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-20 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-09-20 20:22 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-20 21:28 ` Arnaud Ebalard
2010-09-20 22:23 ` David Miller
2010-09-21 11:03 ` Arnaud Ebalard
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