Re: link status in ifconfig

[Henning Brauer <lists-openbsd_(_at_)_bsws_(_dot_)_de>]

* Sergey Nikolenko <admin_(_at_)_trigor_(_dot_)_ru> [2005-02-15 09:23]:
> Hello all.
> 
> The FreeBSD's ifconfig has information about link status ('active' or 
> 'no carrier'):
> 
> 
> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.100.1 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 192.168.100.31
>         ether 00:02:44:74:4c:44
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> 	status: active      <<<<<
> 
> How can I know link status of the NIC in OpenBSD?

That _is_ the link status.

The descriptions come from sys/net/if_media.h

#define	IFM_STATUS_DESCRIPTIONS {					\
	{ IFM_ETHER,		IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "no carrier", "active" } },				\
	{ IFM_FDDI,		IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "no ring", "inserted" } },				\
	{ IFM_TOKEN,		IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "no ring", "inserted" } },				\
	{ IFM_IEEE80211,	IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "no network", "active" } },				\
	{ IFM_TDM,		IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "no carrier", "active" } },				\
	{ IFM_CARP,		IFM_AVALID,	IFM_ACTIVE,		\
	    { "backup", "master" } },					\
	{ 0,			0,		0,			\
	    { NULL, NULL } }						\
}

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