hi, here's a patch to make the channel bonding driver not try to transmit on links that are down. there was a patch made to 2.3.x to do this via checking netif_carrier_ok(). this adds the functionality to the 2.2.x driver code. please cc: me in response. brien --- linux-2.2.17/drivers/net/bonding.c Fri Nov 3 12:22:33 2000 +++ linux-2.2.17-patched/drivers/net/bonding.c Fri Nov 3 12:24:27 2000 @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ while (good == 0) { slave = queue->current_slave->dev; - if (slave->flags & (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING)) { + if ((slave->flags & (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING)) == (IFF_UP|IFF_RUNNING)) { skb->dev = slave; skb->priority = 1; dev_queue_xmit(skb); __________________________________________________ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/