Re: [PATCH] support for Cobalt Networks (x86 only) systems (forrealthis

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 09:19:41 EDT

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    Jeff Garzik writes:
    > For your HA application specifically, right now, I would suggest making
    > sure your net driver calls netif_carrier_xxx correctly, then checking
    > for IFF_RUNNING interface flag. IFF_RUNNING will disappear if the
    > interface is up, but there is no carrier [as according to
    > netif_carrier_ok].

    Don't such HA apps need to run as root anyways?

    Regardless, I agree that, long term, the way to do this is via netlink.

    Later,
    David S. Miller
    davem@redhat.com
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