David Edmondson writes:
> 
> On 20 Mar 2008, at 22:54, Peter Memishian wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> 
> Doesn't probing already serve exactly that purpose?

Slowly.  Link up/down notification is typically very fast.

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