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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 19:25:13 -0400
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? 
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At 04:21 PM 10/2/97 -0700, Tom wrote:
>
>On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>> FWIW, the ifmedia already supports this.  Depending on if the
>> link is up, media will have IFM_ALIVE set or clear.
>
>  But that won't translate into a UP or DOWN state?  Somehow gated gets
>the interface states (via routing socket?).  How can I read that state
>via a user-mode program?

Use the SIOCGIFMEDIA ioctl.

>  I think it would be great to add some indication to ifconfig to indicate
>that the physical layer is up.

ifconfig -m de0 

de1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        address: 00:00:f8:02:c0:cc
        media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active
        supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP

(notice the status: alive)
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