From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 12:21:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ACF737BDB6 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA28278; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity In-Reply-To: <200006201722.KAA19309@usr01.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message