Re: Problem with 2.4.24 e1000 and keepalived

Willy Tarreau wrote:

Hi Ben,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:45:04PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
 

quoted

You have to bring the interface 'UP' before it will detect link,
with something like:  ifconfig eth2 up

Don't you mean "after" instead of "before" here ? Because the case where
it doesn't work is when everything is set up while the cable is unplugged,
but conversely, if the system goes up with the cable plugged, setting the
interface UP detects the link as UP and works. I believe that the problem
is related to setting the interface UP with nothing plugged into it.

No, I meant what I said:  You have to tell many drivers to bring the interface
up before they will attempt (or at least report) link negotiation.
You do NOT have to give it an IP address or add any routes to it.

But, I don't know about your particular program, I just suspect it
is related to detecting link state.  I think tg3 detects link when
the interface is not UP, if you have some tg3 nics maybe you could
try with them?

Ben

Cheers,
Willy

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