Hello,
As I do occasionally crazy things (like every second day), I noticed
a strange problem with a temporary PPP link.
My default outbound route goes via ethernet, but I want occasionally to
test a few dialin services. While doing that, I noticed that a downed
interface still replies to e.g. ping:
$ /sbin/ifconfig ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:194.197.67.2 P-t-P:194.197.68.9 Mask:255.255.255.255
POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
$ ping 194.197.67.2
PING 194.197.67.2 (194.197.67.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 194.197.67.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.2 ms
64 bytes from 194.197.67.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
...
$ uname -r
2.2.3
I think a minor test of "is the interface up" is lacking.
/Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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