On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:44:14AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 13:25 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > This would be an inadequate solution, because it does not account for > > ethernet interfaces that change media state; > > As in link up/down -- the result of [un]plugging the cable?
Yes, but also of the device on the other end changing state. For example, it's fairly common for a fibre transceiver to indicate loss of link on the fibre connection by switching off its ethernet interface. It's also the behaviour you get when somebody puts a nail through the cat5 cable. From userspace, this appears as the RUNNING flag changing on the interface, not as a hotplug event. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
