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 --- 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
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