jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dont think the ifup/ifconfig provide operational status (i.e link > up/down) - or do they? If they can be made to invoke scripts in such > a case then we are set.
In fact, that's a very good reason why this shouldn't be in netfront. Indeed, it shouldn't be in the guest at all. The reason is that the guest has no idea whether the physical carrier is present. It's much better for the host to send the ARP packet on behalf of the guest since the host knows the carrier status and the guest's MAC address. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
