Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:35:25 -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: <20080807173525.GB37969@citylink.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <E1KR91q-000LRz-HQ@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <20080807165712.GA37969@citylink.fud.org.nz> <E1KR91q-000LRz-HQ@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:11:58PM +0100, Pete French wrote: > > The bce driver is not properly generating link state events. > > OK, that explains why it doesnt failover - but why does looking at it > with ifconfig make a difference ? surely that should be 'read only ? ifconfig will cause the media status to be read from the hardware at which time the link change is generated as it is different to the stored value. cheers, Andrew
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