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Re: Bonded NIC's did not come up at boot?



Camaleón put forth on 11/24/2010 1:21 AM:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:28:10 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:

>> It should be clear to anyone reading the mii-tool man page, and
>> possessing some common sense, that the tool will not work properly on a
>> virtual adapter.  If you don't understand this, talk to the authors:
> 
> (...)
> 
> No need to be "picky", everything can be improved. Error management and 
> user interaction are also an important part of programming design and 
> development.

I think you're assuming that since mii-tool doesn't bomb out when
specifying a virtual NIC, but actually shows some data on link speed and
duplex, that it _should_ give an error for those instead.  If it bombed
out instead, what would you be saying?  You'd be saying what I have:
It's not designed to work with virtual NICs.

Write the developers and ask them to make the next version bomb with
virtual NICs, which is what it should do.

-- 
Stan


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