On 20 Mar 2008, at 22:54, Peter Memishian wrote: > >> In the VNIC case, the failure of the underlying physical NIC >> (resulting in the link being 'down') doesn't stop the different VNICs >> from communicating with each other. As a consequence we decided not >> to >> propagate the link state. If there is just one VNIC then perhaps it >> would make sense to do so. > > Another alternative would be to provide another mechanism in.mpathd > could > use to conclude that the VNIC can no longer access other nodes outside > the box.
Doesn't probing already serve exactly that purpose? _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
