linux-kernel - RE: ARP Bug?

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Date:	Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:30:05 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	"Peters, Gordon" <gordon.peters@...el.com>
cc:	"Gosney, JeremiX" <jeremix.gosney@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Sy, Dely L" <dely.l.sy@...el.com>
Subject: RE: ARP Bug?


On Dec 19 2007 09:47, Peters, Gordon wrote:

>Call me crazy,

For top-posting, yes. :)

> but if I have 2 NICs in a system and all the traffic is
>going through one of them and then that one NIC cable gets pulled, the
>other NIC, that half of the traffic should have been going through in
>the first place, should still work. However, with this type of
>functionality, it does not. Effectively both NICs are now dead even
>though the cable has only been pulled from eth0. Once you pull the cable
>to that "primary" NIC, all traffic stops; even when the "secondary" NIC
>is up and working fine. That in my professional opinion is broken.

I think you should finally reveal your interface configuration
otherwise it's all smoke and mirrors.
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