On (06/10/08 22:50), Peter Memishian wrote: > However, in the common case with e.g. two interfaces together in an IPMP > group that has DHCP data addresses, when the group fails, the IPMP IP > interface's IFF_RUNNING flag will be cleared and thus its routes removed
IFF_RUNNING is traditionally used to indicate that the resources needed by the driver are available/allocated. Is it correct to turn off this flag on the ipmpN interface when the under-interfaces have failed? Can we use some other flag (IFF_FAILED? IFF_INACTIVE?) for this purpose? --Sowmini
