Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Peter Buckingham wrote:

> I recently had similar problems (specifically with the e1000 
> driver). When one hang goes down a send to the other interface will 
> hang. This was when we were using the same socket to send on both 
> interfaces, what resulted is that the socket buffer would fill up 
> and cause the send to block. If you aren't using the same socket to 
> send out on both interfaces you should be fine. the rather large 
> hack that i used to get this to work on my system is below. 
> basically it will not enqueue a packet when the interface is down. 
> this may well do nasty things to tcp...

There's an old thread on netdev, occasionally resurrected, about this 
behaviour btw.

> peter

regards,
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