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Date:      Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:50:34 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Software detection of link integrity 
Message-ID:  <200006201950.UAA65946@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>  of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 15:21:00 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006201519110.896-100000@sasami.jurai.net> 

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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.

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 <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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