James Carlson wrote:
viveks wrote:
Hi,
Does ifconfig show the link status of an interface? if yes, what is the flag.
The "RUNNING" flag shows whether the link is up -- if the driver
supports link up/down reporting. (All of the drivers that come with
OpenSolaris should support that, but some third party ones do not.)
Some hardware simply *can't* easily do this. Some drivers are really
stale and haven't been updated:
* dnet only does link state reporting on certain cards (this with MII
transceivers)
* pcelx and elx don't do this at all
* spwr doesn't do it all (but spwr could easily be improved, and indeed
it ought to be.)
* dman (SF25K) doesn't do it (but uses a backplane connection anyway)
So, there are exceptions. But *most* drivers in ON (and certainly
anything for hardware you bought in the past year or three) will work.
-- Garrett
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