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Message-ID: <22039.1329171191@death.nxdomain>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:13:11 -0800
From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
cc: Steffen Klassert <klassert@...hematik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bonding with 3c59x driver
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de> wrote:
>I am trying to do network bonding on top of 3com 3C905C ethernet
>adapters. I am facing the problem that network cable removal isn't
>detected. It is detected when using Realtek hardware with driver 8139too
>or VIA hardware with driver via-rhine, but no luck with driver 3c59x.
>I'm using bonding option miimon=100 for link detection.
>
>Does anyone know if this is a hardware limitation, or a missing feature
>of the 3c59x driver, or a bug in that driver?
It just so happens that I was looking at 3c59x earlier today for
something else. It appears to run its internal link state detection on
a 5 second timer, after which (in theory) bonding's miimon would notice
(provided that the driver notices and calls netif_carrier_off).
If that's not working, did you try use_carrier=0 to probe the
mii register state directly?
I have used 3c59x with bonding in the distant past, but I don't
recall exactly what tweaks were necessary; it may have required
use_carrier=0 to work at all.
-J
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-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@...ibm.com
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