From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 10 13:37:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C9037B718; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:37:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Received: from scsiguy.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f2ALbmC04064; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:37:48 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200103102137.f2ALbmC04064@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 10 Mar 2001 13:07:00 PST." <20010310210700.2284F37B718@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:37:48 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. >> >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather >> than by polling? > >If there was, I would have done it. Perhaps it would be best to create an interface that allows async notification but to provide a default implementation of the interface that polls? This would allow hardware that has a mechanism to detect the state change to override the default method while all other cards "just work" without modification by polling. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message