is there a linux clone of solaris ndd

2000-11-29 Thread Dahiroc, Patrick
does anyone know of any app that detects whether a nic's connection is physically up? solaris ndd can do this is there a freebie version of this.

Re: is there a linux clone of solaris ndd

2000-11-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dahiroc, Patrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): does anyone know of any app that detects whether a nic's connection is physically up? solaris ndd can do this is there a freebie version of this. Do you mean the NIC on the machine you're at? If so, /sbin/ifconfig. Or do you mean a remote machine?

Re: is there a linux clone of solaris ndd

2000-11-29 Thread patd
yes i would like to know whether the NIC on the machine i'm currently using is physically connected i.e. the NIC is getting electrical signals. 'ifconfig' only tells whether the interface is configured. i would like to be able to detect network loss that is due to a bad uplink. i know that i