Hello, For a Solaris system that is connected via ethernet to a router, I'm looking for any command or function call on Solaris that would shut down the physical link (like turn the NIC power off or anything to the effect that the connection from the router side would appear as if the cable to the Solaris box was unplugged or the Solaris box itself rebooted or the ethernet signal is gone).
Using ifconfig to mark the interface down seems to be the most likely answer but it's not clear what this actually does to the state of the physical ethernet link. I want the router to detect that its physical interface to the solaris machine is down (aka line protocol is down) as oppose to any other interface disabling method that works on a higher level in the Solaris IP stack and won't be detectable on the router side. The intention is to force the router to remove routes pointing to the solaris machine (these are static routes, so there is no dynamic routing protocol. The latter case is obvious and achievable in many different ways) Thanks for any hints. Al. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
