Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:42:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Paul Southworth <pauls@ieng.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interfaces don't go down when network is physically down Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9904201439170.2158-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199904201814.LAA10552@implode.root.com>
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David Greenman wrote: > For many of the ethernet interfaces, there isn't any indication that the > link is down. On the other hand, for the 100Mbps interfaces, it is possible > in some cases to get an interrupt from the PHY of the link status change. > We don't currently do anything with that, however. Should we? Is it acceptable for the driver to frob the IFF_UP flag when it gets an event that should be reflected by a state change of IFF_UP? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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