[U-Boot-Users] U-boot automatic selection of redundant ethern et interfaces?

[Mark Doherty]

Dear Wolfgang,

> 
> I don't know if the "ping" code takes redundand  ethernet  interfaces
> into  account,  i. e. if it will toggle interfaces. I don't even know
> if this makes sense - "ping" is  intended  to  test  if  somebody  is
> responding,  and  it  makes  probably  no  sense  here to distinguish
> between the remote ost being down or cable disconnected or  interface
> broken.
> 
> It's a differetn issue with a  network  boot  (dhcp,  bootp  or  tftp
> command)  - you expect these to work, and if they are failingit seems
> a good idea to try an alternative inteface if there is one.
> 

It works as you suggested, ping doesn't use redundant interfaces but tftp
certainly does, initially it times out the first time it tries a transfer
(which initially threw me!) but the second time it works nicely. Exactly
what I was looking for, 

thank you.

Mark.