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?
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