From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 11:42:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606CC14D35 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA44412; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 11:41:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: slava Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 10baseT interface no down when cable is unpluged In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, slava wrote: > > hello > > I have a problem with gated ospf no detecting when my mx0 > interface goes down. Let's say I unplug the CAT5 cable from > the card. Shouldn't ifconfig show me that the interface is down? Why? You haven't downed it. "Down" does not mean "not working" in this context. > It reports exactly the same status as if the cable was there. > The problem with ospf is it will issue an LSA only if the status of > the interface is changed. > > Can anyone suggest an workaround this problem? Attempt to ping whatever you're plugged into, and if it fails do whatever you need to do? Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message