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Re: [patch 4/10] s390: network driver.

To: hasso@xxxxxxxxx (Hasso Tepper)
Subject: Re: [patch 4/10] s390: network driver.
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:13:33 +1100
Cc: hadi@xxxxxxxxxx, paul@xxxxxxxx, thomas.spatzier@xxxxxxxxxx, jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Hasso Tepper <hasso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Seems that it's no longer true. Seems that kernel is now trying as hard as 
> possible not to loose any data - data is queued and if the queue will be 
> full, all related sockets will be blocked to notify application. So, one 
> socket approach don't work any more for Quagga/Zebra. No problem, we can 
> take the "one socket per interface" approach. And we already have link 
> detection implemented to notify daemons.

I don't see why this should be happening.  Can you please provide a
minimal program that reproduces this blocking problem? For example,
something that sends a packet to a downed interface and then sends
one to an interface that's up?
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