> In the VNIC case, the failure of the underlying physical NIC > (resulting in the link being 'down') doesn't stop the different VNICs > from communicating with each other. As a consequence we decided not to > propagate the link state. If there is just one VNIC then perhaps it > would make sense to do so.
Another alternative would be to provide another mechanism in.mpathd could use to conclude that the VNIC can no longer access other nodes outside the box. > Even if we did fix this, the current Xen inter-domain protocol has no > way to express 'link is down' (short of actually cutting the > connection). -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
