On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:36:52PM +0200, Emanuele Rocca wrote: > Hello Javier, Hi there. > > This package provides additional scripts for ifupdown to test for some common > > problems when setting up interfaces: > > > > - interfaces without a link (admin can have that condition abort interface > > setup if he wants the behaviour described in #120382) > > Very nice. > The test could be added to ping-places.sh (provided by ifupdown as an > example), otherwise mapping stanzas using it to choose a logical > interface will try to ping addresses using an interface which may be > down. Could do. > What about putting the code which checks the link status in a separate > script, so that it can be used elsewhere? It's pretty standalone right now. You just have to run it as root as this: # IFACE=eth0 /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/check-network-cable The meat is, however, in the check_status() functions so they could move elsewhere and create a script that used $1 instead. > > This package also provides 'network-test', a script to test the network > > configuration status by checking: > > - Interface status > > This feature is not working properly here. Yep, sorry, the network-cable test in that one is still flacky, it should reuse the code in the 'check-network-cable' script (i.e. use 'ip link show' and look for NO-CARRIER, or use mii-tool or ethtool). I've fixed and made available a new version up at people.debian.org (package version 0.2 now) Regard Javier
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