Driver needs to turn off carrier when down, otherwise it can confuse bonding and bridging and looks like carrier is on immediately when it is brought back up. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- netdev-2.6.orig/drivers/net/skge.c 2007-04-07 15:09:13.000000000 -0700 +++ netdev-2.6/drivers/net/skge.c 2007-04-07 15:09:58.000000000 -0700 @@ -2535,6 +2535,7 @@ printk(KERN_INFO PFX "%s: disabling interface\n", dev->name); netif_stop_queue(dev); + netif_carrier_off(dev); if (hw->chip_id == CHIP_ID_GENESIS && hw->phy_type == SK_PHY_XMAC) del_timer_sync(&skge->link_timer); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html