Dhirendra Pal Singh wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have been > beating my head with this problem with almost a week without any > results.. I > hope someone here might be able to help and would be deeply > appreciated.. > > The problem > in one line is, that when I say ifconfig eth0 down, on kernel 2.4.28, > the cisco > switch to which it is connected to, still detects it, as up, with the > link led also lit up. Now there is some HA stuff at the client's > place, which is dependent on the router detecting, that the > interface is down.
Try disabling WOL (ethtool -s eth0 wol d). The drivers will not shutdown the PHY on ifdown which is causing the link to stay up unless WOL is disabled. This is by design. Thanks, Emil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
