On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:28:55 +0200 (CEST)
Bartłomiej Rutkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been playing with OpenOspf lately, and I came to a place, when I 
> needed to ensure that an ethernet interface should always go into DOWN state 
> when it loses its link (physically, for example the switch becames turned 
> off). I have tried to hire the devd daemon to do the job with such small 
> definitions:
> 
> notify 100 {
>         match "system"          "IFNET";
>         match "type"            "LINK_DOWN";
>         media-type              "ethernet";
>         action "/sbin/ifconfig $subsystem down";
> };
>  
> notify 200 {
>         match "system"          "IFNET";
>         match "type"            "LINK_UP";
>         media-type              "ethernet";
>         action "/sbin/ifconfig $subsystem up";
> };
> 
> And what is happening? Well, basically, when the interface detects that eth 
> cable has been detached, devd triggers and makes it DOWN, which is ok. But, 
> when the card got the cable attached once again (and interface detects the 
> media type and gets ACTIVE state) devd never triggers the second rule, which 
> should get the interface UP again. 
> I have tried that with replacing action statements with ones with proper 
> logging actions, and when interface is UP devd gets the proper state changes 
> information. 
> 
> Now the question is: why devd doesent receive any information from interfaces 
> in DOWN state? Is that proper behaviour, or a bug? Thanks for any reply, and 
> for your attention.
> 

hi ,
What do you get when you run devd in debug mode :
/etc/rc.d/devd stop
/sbin/devd -d -D


in my case, i get the following on pulling the cat5 on bge0

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Fri Jul 20 20:36:28 2007]
/usr/home/betom
# /sbin/devd -D -d
Parsing /etc/devd.conf
setting 
scsi-controller-regex=(aac|adv|adw|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|aic|amd|amr|asr|bt|ciss|ct|dpt|esp|ida|iir|ips|isp|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)[0-9]+
Parsing files in /etc/devd
Parsing files in /usr/local/etc/devd
Parsing /usr/local/etc/devd/ayiin.conf
Processing event '!system=IFNET subsystem=bge0 type=LINK_DOWN'
Pushing table
setting system=IFNET
setting subsystem=bge0
setting type=LINK_DOWN
Processing notify event
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_DOWN against ^ATTACH
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_DOWN against ^DETACH
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_DOWN against ^LINK_UP
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_DOWN against ^LINK_UP
Popping table

[AND HERE I PLUG IT BACK IN ]

Processing event '!system=IFNET subsystem=bge0 type=LINK_UP'
Pushing table
setting system=IFNET
setting subsystem=bge0
setting type=LINK_UP
Processing notify event
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^ACPI
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_UP against ^ATTACH
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_UP against ^DETACH
Testing system=IFNET against ^IFNET
Testing type=LINK_UP against ^LINK_UP
Testing media type of bge0 against 0x20
bge0 has media type 0x20
Executing '/etc/rc.d/dhclient start bge0'
Popping table

-----
do you get the LINK_UP event at all? 
Otherwise, you should be able to figure out what the issue is with your  config 
file ...

Good luck,

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