On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:22:48PM -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> Seems like the fault in net8 causes net3 to fail in some way that
> doesn't manifest properly to the ptp4l socket?

>From the description, it sounds like ptp4l is getting a link down push
notification from the kernel via the RT netlink socket (see rtnl.c).

The code does check the interface index, but still maybe there is a
bug either in ptp4l or in the kernel...
 
> What does ptp4l say during this? does it get a fault indication or does
> it simply stop receiving messages?

I would instrument rtnl.c to print out the interface name and index.
See rtnl_link_status().

Perhaps the kernel really is reporting link down on the wrong
interface.

Thanks,
Richard


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