netdev - Re: ping -I eth1 ....

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Date:	Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:34:25 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...radead.org>
Cc:	Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@...nsmode.se>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ping -I eth1 ....

Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 à 10:25 -0400, Thomas Graf a écrit :
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 03:01:57PM +0100, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > > Then I do ifconfig eth1 down
> > > > and I still see the same. Should not
> > > > sendto and/or revcfrom return some error as
> > > > the interface is down?
> > >
> > > Hmm, this reminds me one patch, yes...
> > >
> > > Search for " ipv4: remove all rt cache entries on UNREGISTER event"
> > >
> > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/173391
> > 
> > Ah, that does the trick. A few comments though:
> > 
> > 1) I think you should include IFF_RUNNING too
> 
> Probably even better to base it on the operational state of the link
> 
> netif_running() && netif_oper_up() && netif_carrier_ok() && !netif_dormant()

At this point we setup a route.

Is a change of any of this status going to flush/cancel a previously
setup route ?

There must be a reason why in many places we only test (dev->flags &
IFF_UP), and _never_ netif_oper_up() (only in dev_get_flags() to export
it at userspace) 




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