On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:29:55AM -0700, Scott Feldman wrote: [...] > > On the iproute2 part, do we expect users to manually toggle this flag > from the cmdline? Seems kind of weird to walk up to a box and say "ip > link set dev DEV protodown on". Isn't this more intended for external > agents (i.e. MLAG) to toggle? I guess if there is a netlink attr for > the flag, there should be a user-interface. But it seems like it'll > be a source of confusion for 99.999% of the users out there that > wonder what this knob does.
I would want to have it in iproute2 the event that I killed an app that set this flag for me. This would allow me to clear the bit and use the interface as I pleased. I would not want to have to reboot just to use my device again. -- 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
