On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:38 AM, <anurad...@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote: > From: Anuradha Karuppiah <anurad...@cumulusnetworks.com> > > User space daemons can detect errors in the network that need to be > notified to the switch device drivers. > > Drivers can react to this error state by doing a phy-down on the > switch-port which would result in a carrier-off locally and on the > directly connected switch. Doing that would prevent loops and > black-holes in the network.
(Sorry if this was asked earlier) Can the application simply send a SETLINK with IFF_UP clear and the port driver's ndo_stop would bring the PHY link down? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
