Re: Bonding Driver Questions + security warning

2000-09-27 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Willy TARREAU wrote: > > Hello Constantine ! > > I also needed to be able to detect a failed link and to remove the > guilty interface from a trunk between a linux box and an Alteon A708 > switch. So I've just written a little patch against 2.2.17 to implement > the BOND_RELEASE ioctl (Thomas Da

Re: Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher E. Brown
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > Hi, I'd like to use channel bonding driver for high availability. > > Currenly the bonding driver does not detect a dead slave link. When a > slave link dies, it causes lots of network retransmits and the effective > speed of the bonding device

Re: Bonding Driver Questions + security warning

2000-09-26 Thread Willy TARREAU
Hello Constantine ! I also needed to be able to detect a failed link and to remove the guilty interface from a trunk between a linux box and an Alteon A708 switch. So I've just written a little patch against 2.2.17 to implement the BOND_RELEASE ioctl (Thomas Davis cc'd for this). I also quickly m

Re: Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-26 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Thomas Davis wrote: > Link status is not used at all in v2.2 (and would mean a rewrite of > drivers to get it) > > Link status is used in v2.4. Not all drivers support link status. In > fact, I don't know of any that do - but it's possible now to do it. > > Simply taking down the interface s

Re: Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-25 Thread Thomas Davis
Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > > 1) How can I check for the link status from the user space? > 2) Could enslaved interface be released without bringing the master > interface down? If yes, how? Could we have ifunslave? > Link status is not used at all in v2.2 (and would mean a rewrite of driver

Bonding Driver Questions

2000-09-24 Thread Constantine Gavrilov
Hi, I'd like to use channel bonding driver for high availability. Currenly the bonding driver does not detect a dead slave link. When a slave link dies, it causes lots of network retransmits and the effective speed of the bonding device drops to almost zero. This has been verified in the lab. Ho