Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:53:42 -0500 From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please Message-ID: <20000620135342.C29773@bone.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <200006192352.QAA03874@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:52:57PM %2B0000 References: <xzpsnu9u5yz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200006192352.QAA03874@usr06.primenet.com>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:52:57PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > FWIW, I ran into a use for being able to tell from software > whether the link integrity on an ethernet card was valid or > not. [snip] > Would this be a useful thing to build into ifconfig? Is this different from the `status: active' that ifconfig currently reports based on the ifm_status field of the structure filled by the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl? That's what I currently use to decide whether to run DHCP on my laptop's interface. I don't know where that ioctl is documented. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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