From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262308AbTJIRJQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:09:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262312AbTJIRJQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:09:16 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:1742 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262308AbTJIRJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:09:14 -0400 X-Sender-Authentication: net64 Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 19:09:12 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: linux-kernel Cc: marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Subject: Re: Problem with e1000 driver from kernel 2.4.23-pre6 Message-Id: <20031009190912.4caa8590.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031009162241.00e93abb.skraw@ithnet.com> References: <20031009162241.00e93abb.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:22:41 +0200 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Hello, > > I just found out that the e1000-driver included in the latest kernel > 2.4.23-pre6 has a problem cooperating with keepalived. Keepalived uses > netlink to find out about interfaces being up or down. This works well with > eepro100 driver from Don Becker (or tulip), but does not work at all with > e1000. Probably for the same reason mii-tool does not show anything useful > either. Is this fixable inside the e1000-driver? Should keepalived be fixed > in any way? Sorry for answering myself, but it seems both eepro100 and e1000 do the same thing. I just found out that the problem is not with the driver, but if the cards' link status is up or down when keepalived is started. Please sit back and relax as long as I cannot nail the exact cause. Regards, Stephan