> Doesn't babeld notice when an interface goes down, and immediately tries > to find another route?
Yes, it does. > (well, unplugging a cable is not the same as going down, but I guess the > kernel could tell us anyway) We already monitor the Ethernet carrier, but the functionality is disabled by default -- see the "-l" flag in the babeld manual page. It's pretty useless in practice, since most Ethernet interfaces are behind a switch. > If I recall correctly, Quagga already watches interfaces for link-layer > events, so quagga-babel probably benefits from it. If memory serves, it's also disabled by default in Quagga (see the interface command "link-detect"). > On a related note, I once tried to use nl80211 [1] for detecting 802.11 > association/deassociation events: basically, an elaborate version of > running « iw dev wlan0 station dump » at regular interval. We can do much better than that. Search the Linux kernel for recent commits by Antonio Quartulli. -- Juliusz _______________________________________________ Babel-users mailing list Babel-users@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/babel-users
