From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: marcel@holtmann.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:29:51 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081214.222951.190945313.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1229225313.22285.151.camel@violet.holtmann.net>
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 04:28:33 +0100
> I have a really strange issue with the 2.6.28 kernel. So when I boot
> that kernel and then call "ifconfig eth0 up && ifconfig" it shows eth0
> with the flag RUNNING enabled. Even if no cable is plugged into that
> device.
The RUNNING state has no connection to link presence.
It just means that the device has been brought up by a
user configuration command like the ifconfig you ran.
It really means nothing else.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-15 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-14 3:28 IFF_RUNNING without carrier after reboot Marcel Holtmann
2008-12-15 6:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-12-15 7:28 ` Herbert Xu
2008-12-15 7:36 ` David Miller
2009-01-27 16:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
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