On 11/05/07, Cathy Zhou <Cathy.Zhou at sun.com> wrote: > Think about this more, one question comes up: > > Based on the Nemo design doc, no traffic is allowed before m_start() entry > point is called. But the aggr driver calls mac_start() to start each port's > MAC only in aggr_m_start(), when the aggregation is plumbed. > > How LACP traffic is able to get through before m_start() is called.
Indeed. Looks like I was wrong. The underlying MACs are not started until the aggregation is started. The RX function is hooked earlier on but no traffic should be passed up before the m_start entry point is called. Might be worth checking this really is the case though. Paul -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant
