Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:57:12 -0700 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should looking at an interface with 'ifconfig' trigger a change ? Message-ID: <20080807165712.GA37969@citylink.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <E1KR8LB-000KtI-02@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1KR8LB-000KtI-02@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 05:27:53PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > 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.... The bce driver is not properly generating link state events. Andrew
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