On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 14:26 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > One of the bonding commits says: > > bonding: detect virtual bonding devices and create an ethernet device > > A bonding device is like a virtual ethernet device. We therefore reuse > nm-device-ethernet and add some special handling to detect bonding > connections. > > Exactly how much "like a virtual ethernet device" is a bond? In > particular, when you bond two infiniband devices together (or an > ethernet device and a wifi device, which is supported by the kernel > according to the internet), is the result still "like a virtual ethernet > device" in the same way? Is it more like an NMDeviceWired than an > NMDeviceEthernet? (Which may depend to some extent on questions like > "would anyone ever run 802.1x over a bond?")
Probably more like a Wired device, yeah. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list