On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 09:09:51AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > When the PCAP PMD is used in pass-through mode with a physical > interface (iface=X), the link status was always reported with > hardcoded values regardless of the actual interface state. > > Add OS-dependent function to query the real link state from > the underlying interface. > > Linux and FreeBSD use SIOCGIFFLAGS to check IFF_UP and > IFF_RUNNING. Windows uses GetAdaptersAddresses() to check > OperStatus. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> > ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]> Any reason we can't in future similarly query the link speed of the interface in use, and the other link parameters?
