Re: Problem with 2.4.24 e1000 and keepalived

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 03:46:34 EST


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:07:10AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:

> No, I meant what I said: You have to tell many drivers to bring the
> interface
> up before they will attempt (or at least report) link negotiation.
> You do NOT have to give it an IP address or add any routes to it.

ah, OK. No, anyway, it is just a matter of wrongly detecting link state
after the link has been plugged while the interface was already UP, no
matter if an IP was set or not.

> But, I don't know about your particular program, I just suspect it
> is related to detecting link state. I think tg3 detects link when
> the interface is not UP, if you have some tg3 nics maybe you could
> try with them?

As far as I have tested, tg3 are fine WRT this.

Willy

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