Re: [uml-devel] A comparison of the two new network drivers

[Jeff D. <jd...@ka...>]

bu...@gn... said:
> Do you mean netif_carrier and friends? 

No, this was referring to the timer that's started when connect fails.

> This is to notify the upper
> networking layers that a device has carrier or not. Currently it isn't
> being widely used, but things like routing protocols might benefit
> from it (hmm.. I should hack the spanning tree code to use this, too).

Do you have any pointers to docs on what you're talking about here?

> At times, I've forgotten to set proper permissions on /dev/net/tun
> before starting the uml. The uml will see that the open fails, and
> keep trying to connect every N seconds, which gives me time to fix the
> perms in the meanwhile.

OK, I was thinking that it was useful when talking to the routing daemon, and 
it goes away for a bit.

				Jeff