[clug] SEC: UNCLASSIFIED - ifconfig

Martin Pool mbp at sourcefrog.net
Thu Jun 5 08:52:55 EST 2003


On  5 Jun 2003, "Lisman, Jarrad FLGOFF" <Jarrad.Lisman at defence.gov.au> wrote:
> slot, first slot, second and so forth, like you said. Thanks heaps for that,
> confirmed my suspicions. The only thing I woiuld like to know about now is
> what does RUNNING mean :)

It means the network card is up.  It doesn't mean that there is a
cable plugged in or a signal on that carrier.  I think you can use
something like mii-diag to find out that sort of thing; google for
Linux MII.

--
Martin



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