Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 14:31:50 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: call for testers: port aggregation netgraph module Message-ID: <20010310223150.6EF1237B718@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200103102137.f2ALbmC04064@aslan.scsiguy.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at "Mar 10, 2001 02:37:48 pm"
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> >> >Each link is checked once every second to see if the link is still up. > >> >An attempt to send a packet over a dead link will cause the packet to > >> >be shifted over to the next link in the bundle. > >> > >> Any chance this can be done through an async event rather > >> than by polling? > > > >If there was, I would have done it. > > Perhaps it would be best to create an interface that allows async > notification but to provide a default implementation of the interface > that polls? This would allow hardware that has a mechanism to detect > the state change to override the default method while all other > cards "just work" without modification by polling. Perhaps somebody who is not me should investigate this then. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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