Re: Problem with 2.4.24 e1000 and keepalived

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 12:07:10AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
 

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.

ah, OK. No, anyway, it is just a matter of wrongly detecting link state
after the link has been plugged while the interface was already UP, no
matter if an IP was set or not.

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?

As far as I have tested, tg3 are fine WRT this.

Willy