Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmonds@debian.org): > > Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > To Robert: thanks for the patches and the finally fruitful discussion > > > with Matthew (it started a little bit hot but you guys managed to > > > handle it. That deserves applauses). > > > > here is a new version of the patch. this one makes the reachability > > test conditional on !is_wireless_iface(), since wireless interfaces > > don't have the 802.1d forwarding delay problem. > > What is the current status of this change. It seems to me that the > later discussion was more about choosing a "decent" timeout value than > the real involved change. So, would it be possible to commit the > proposed change? actually, the later discussion was about the value of NETCFG_LINK_WAIT_TIME (which i think is too short) and is unrelated to this patch. i've tested this patch (the gateway reachability test) on real and virtual hardware and it works fine for me. i don't know of any outstanding issues; IMO it can be merged. -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.org
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