From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 11:53:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [209.98.143.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58B6F37BFCE for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:53:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.1.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C112E9B2F; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:53:48 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bone.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0B4201DC6; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:53:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:53:42 -0500 From: "Jacques A . Vidrine" To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: (2nd iteration) New /dev/(random|null|zero) - review, please Message-ID: <20000620135342.C29773@bone.nectar.com> References: <200006192352.QAA03874@usr06.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006192352.QAA03874@usr06.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:52:57PM +0000 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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