Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 29 Oct 2001 23:17:00 +0100 | From | Laurent Deniel <> | Subject | Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing |
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Laurent Deniel wrote: > > Currently only the link status is used to monitor a NIC. > So it would be nice if an ioctl was available to force a NIC switch-over > (especially in active-backup policy). This could be used by a user-space > daemon in case for instance no traffic is detected. > > I see that the bonding driver is included in 2.2.18, what is its status > in 2.4.x ? > > Regards, > > Laurent
Hmm, it seems that a lot of good stuff (e.g. ARP monitoring and SIOCBONDCHANGEACTIVE ioctl) are implemented in the bonding patch for 2.4.13. Will it be included in the mainstream 2.4.x kernel or is it a 2.5 thing ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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