Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:27:53 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: should looking at an interface with 'ifconfig' trigger a change ? Message-ID: <E1KR8LB-000KtI-02@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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I have a very odd problem here - two interfaces bundled using lagg in 'failover' mode, so one interface is active and the other not being used. if the carrier drops on the active one I expect it to failover, but it doesnt. ...until I type 'ifconfig bce0' to look at the status of the interface which has gone down. At which point it fails over properly! This is most odd - how can simply looking at the config of an interface trigger the failover ? It wont fail over otherwise either - you can leave it as long as you like and lagg wont realise that the active has gone down. The interfaces here are 'bce' by the way, if that make a difference.... -pete.
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