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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Software detection of link integrity
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006201519110.896-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <200006201722.KAA19309@usr01.primenet.com>

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Would this be a useful thing to build into ifconfig?

Ideally, network drivers shouldn't set the IFF_UP flag until the link is
actually up.

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