[K12OSN] OT: random

[Peter Hartmann]

Beautiful, thanks!


Peter

On Dec 6, 2007 12:36 PM, Jim McQuillan <jam at mcquil.com> wrote:
> Peter,
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> Instead of using ifconfig, take a look at "mii-tool eth0" or "ethtool eth0".
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> Both of those will report whether there is a link or not.
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> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
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> Peter Hartmann wrote:
> > I've written a bash script to do some data acquisition from a relay.
> > Since I'm just measuring on/off, I'm not messing with serial of
> > parallel ports and extra equipment.  I'm planning on using an extra
> > nic card with a loopback ethernet cable.   I tested this on my laptop
> > running FC6.  When the loopback circuit is complete ifconfig shows
> > "RUNNING". When the circuit is broken RUNNING is not shown.   However,
> > the platform is FC3.  FC3, as well as FC5 don't react this way when
> > there's not network connection.  What is this function called?  Media
> > check?  Is there another way of getting that information on these
> > older OSes?
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> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Peter
> >
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