From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 12:56:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B4737BFA9 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:56:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA11185; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:50:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA65946; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:50:34 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200006201950.UAA65946@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew N. Dodd" of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:50:34 +0100 From: Brian Somers 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. 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 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