From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 20 18:42: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DAC37B754 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA15399; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:41:24 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAyFaWdE; Tue Jun 20 18:41:17 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09970; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:41:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006210141.SAA09970@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Software detection of link integrity To: winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:41:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jun 20, 2000 03:21:00 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. What do they do if the link goes down? This status needs to be seperate. There appears to be an ioctl(0 which might or might not already expose this, according to another poster. Time to investigate... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message