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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:41:52 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Software detection of link integrity
Message-ID:  <200006210141.SAA09970@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006201519110.896-100000@sasami.jurai.net> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at Jun 20, 2000 03:21:00 PM

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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.

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
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