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Raymundo M. Vega wrote:
| on my computer it does not work, i disconnected the wire from
| the ethernet port and the ifconfig is the same, i think it
| tells if the interface is up in the kernel, not if the inteface
| has carrier from switch/hub. This is from ifconfig man page:
|
|        up     This flag causes the interface to be activated.  It
|               is implicitly specified if an address  is  assigned
|               to the interface.
|
|
UP means that the interface is up and not that the link is not
established. If you want to check if a link is established you should
use ping AFAIK.




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