Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> sthaug_at_nethelp.no wrote this message on Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 23:15 +0100: >> >>>> We should probably better document the interface "interface". if we are >>>> going to (as Sam suggests) >>>> do some cleanups we might as well consider what other changes should be >>>> put in at the same time. >>> >>> >>> A couple of other suggestions: >>> >>> - For software routers (quagga, zebra etc.) it would be very nice to >>> have "link up" / "link down" notifications to the routing process(es). >> >> >> already supported, either through kqueue, routing socket, or devd (I >> believe)... > > > However, I believe some interface drivers don't generate these events. > Drivers not supporting a specific event delivered by an interrupt > probably need to learn to poll for state changes so that they can > generate an event. I am not aware of any drivers that do not generate the events; only drivers that do not properly detect link status changes. SamReceived on Wed Jan 25 2006 - 23:13:15 UTC
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