Seewer Philippe ([email protected]) said: 
>> Depending on your switch configuration, the time for the switch to start
>> passing traffic again on link bounce couuld be anywhere from 0.1 seconds
>> to 20 seconds...
>
> Quite correct. Up until now I've fared well with adding 1-5 second  
> sleeps to my stuff. But yes it could even take longer. Any ideas how to  
> solve this better?

Post-boot, we (in Fedora) we check every half second until a configurable
delay period (defualt: five seconds) has elapsed; if we don't have a link
by then, we punt. Of course, you probably don't want configuration
parameters in the initramfs.

Bill
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