From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Routing tables associated with VLANs dissappear when parent ethX down/up Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:25:34 +0100 Message-ID: <4744943E.2010000@trash.net> References: <474387E4.7020802@candelatech.com> <47448C4F.3060107@candelatech.com> <20071121120027.54c277ea@freepuppy.rosehill> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ben Greear , NetDev To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:41339 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866AbXKUUZo (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:25:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20071121120027.54c277ea@freepuppy.rosehill> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:51:43 -0800 > Ben Greear wrote: > > >> For consideration, this patch seems to work for me. I'm not sure >> why we ever listed to these events. I've only tested on a NIC that >> doesn't support hw-accel at the moment..will test with e1000 later. >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> >> > > But then if you are doing bonding or bridging of vlan's > and you bring down the root network device, the upper layer is not > notified (for failover). > operstate should be enough for this I guess. Ben, what does iproute show for the vlan device when the lower device is down?