On Sun, 2012-12-02 at 09:39 +0530, abhinay aruva wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working on developing software for a networking company. We are > facing issue with igb driver code implemented on our ethernet > interface > > We have connected two ethernet interfaces which are on two different > ATCA machines as mentioned. > > ATCA1:front_eth1 ----------> ATCA2:front_eth1 > > Both the ethernet interfaces use igb drivers.The version of these > drivers when checked with ethtool command is below > > ethtool -i front_eth1 > driver: igb > version: 2.0.6-fpn > firmware-version: 2.1-1 > bus-info: 0000:04:00.1 > > We are testing below scenario: > We are pinging one interface from the other one and the ping is > working fine when both the interfaces admin and operational state are > UP . Now we have made the the 'front_eth1' interface on ATCA2 admin > down using 'iplink set front_eth1 down'.Then the ping stoped working > and 'front-eth1' interface admin state and operational state on ATCA2 > are now down where as the 'front_eth1' interface admin status and > operational status on the ATCA1 are still are up. Accoring to our > knowledge the 'front_eth1' interface operational status on ATCA1 > should go down when the remote peers interface is made down. > > Can you please let us know wether this is an issue or is it the valid > behaviour on the igb driver. If this is an issue can you please give > us some pointers where to check to find the root cause of this > problem. > > Thanks > Abhinay
Abhinay- I have added Carolyn, since she is the igb maintainer. I have also added the e1000-devel mailing list to open up this to a wider audience. After taking down one of the interfaces, what is ethtool reporting for link both interfaces? (ethtool eth1) Cheers, Jeff
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