netdev - Re: E1000E/82567LM-3: link reported up too soon

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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arno@...isbad.org
Cc:	brian.haley@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: E1000E/82567LM-3: link reported up too soon

From: arno@...isbad.org (Arnaud Ebalard)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:57:46 +0200

> On some ethernet devices (at least), link may be reported up (NEWLINK
> received by userspace with flags indicating UP and RUNNING) before the
> interface is really usable. When sending packets as soon as the link is
> available, the first one may be dropped. That's what you see on the
> capture above.

The link being up doesn't mean an address has been assigned to the
interface for the protocol you are using yet.

I think you have to schedule whatever it is you need to make sure it
runs after dhcp successfully complete.
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