Messages in this thread | | | From | Telford002@aol ... | Date | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 12:38:00 EDT | Subject | Re: (WAN) network device status |
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In a message dated 10/23/01 1:59:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, khc@pm.waw.pl writes:
> I remember a discussion about net_dev->flags and carrier loss etc > detection. Did the things change? I mean, do we currently have a way > for network device driver to report (to the rest of kernel, to the > userland) that the link is down? It would include DCD (carrier) loss, > Ethernet link down, IrDA/USB disconnects etc. > > I think the kernel should deactivate respective routing table entries > as well when a link goes down.
Not if the link can be redialed or reconnected implicitly or on-demand in some way.
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