Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:30:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:30:46 -0500 Received: from zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.157]:9199 "EHLO zcars0m9.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:30:28 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDEC82E.C47C88CD@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 10:33:02 -0500 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: "Christopher Friesen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-custom i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Lundell Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ethernet NIC dual homing In-Reply-To: <9rl60r$g50$1@cesium.transmeta.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Orig: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Lundell wrote: > But what I meant was bonding's use of ARP to determine whether the > connection is good (or rather, bad, even when the link is up), when > the connection is routed via level 3. Seems to me you'd need a level > 3 protocol (say ICMP) rather than ARP. This is what we've done here at work. We use a combination of MII for fast detection of local link loss, and ICMP ping packets to highly available hosts to test the network path (with somewhat slower response time). Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - 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/