Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:50:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity Message-ID: <200006201950.UAA65946@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006201519110.896-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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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. Unless of course the driver (or something behind it) wants to bring the link up on demand. > -- > | 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 | -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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