Ethernet Ports

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Saturday 06 May 2006 04:07, James McDonald wrote:
> Or just unplug the cables and then look at the output of ethtool ethX
> and check for the Link Detected Yes/No status.
Just a side note on this.

Typically, ifconfig shows the "RUNNING" flag for nics with link.
I haven't found this documented so it may not always be the case, but 
empirically, it works.

David, would you like to comment on this?  Perhaps you can speak for the 
validity of this?
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