From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 7 23:48:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15517106566B for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:48:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from psteele@maxiscale.com) Received: from server505.appriver.com (server505e.appriver.com [98.129.35.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D108FC21 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 23:48:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Policy: GLOBAL - maxiscale.com X-Primary: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: This Email was scanned by AppRiver SecureTide X-ALLOW: psteele@maxiscale.com ALLOWED X-Virus-Scan: V- X-Note: Spam Tests Failed: X-Country-Path: UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES->UNITED STATES X-Note-Sending-IP: 98.129.23.14 X-Note-Reverse-DNS: ht01.exg5.exghost.com X-Note-WHTLIST: psteele@maxiscale.com X-Note: User Rule Hits: X-Note: Global Rule Hits: G113 G114 G115 G116 G120 G121 G132 G219 X-Note: Encrypt Rule Hits: X-Note: Mail Class: ALLOWEDSENDER X-Note: Headers Injected Received: from [98.129.23.14] (HELO ht01.exg5.exghost.com) by server505.appriver.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTPS id 18922865 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:48:21 -0600 Received: from mbx03.exg5.exghost.com ([169.254.1.249]) by ht01.exg5.exghost.com ([98.129.23.14]) with mapi; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:48:23 -0600 From: Peter Steele To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 17:48:22 -0600 Thread-Topic: How to get NIC status? Thread-Index: AcqP8+VGhOy/fu3NTbGgvDEGM/hRrA== Message-ID: <7B9397B189EB6E46A5EE7B4C8A4BB7CB36D36AB4@MBX03.exg5.exghost.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How to get NIC status? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:48:25 -0000 Assuming I have the name of an interface, what's the easiest way programmat= ically to get the status of the interface?