RE: off topic - hope somebody can help

["Alexis" <alexis@tpys.com.ar>]

Lets see, Im aware that "shut" an interface when I unplug the network cable
is a stupid thing to do. But im not asking about this.

Im asking about to "tear down" the protocol of the interface, so I can loose
all the routes of this link and the traffic switch directly to second isp.
I don’t care really if I unplug the cable the Ethernet card remains up, I
need the routes disappear in order to switch to the other isp.

I has nothing to deal with Microsoft, linux or whatever.

Like this mail say, when you make a show int in cisco routers there's a link
state and a protocol state. If protocol goes down (one reason could be
unplug the cable) the routes are lost.


This is what I need, and additional to this, some distributions shows in the
console a link notice and some don’t, I assume this is related to the nic
driver.



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De: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org
[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org] En nombre de Hudson Delbert J
Contr 61 CS/SCBN
Enviado el: Viernes, 11 de Junio de 2004 12:48
Para: 'netfilter@lists.netfilter.org'
Asunto: RE: off topic - hope somebody can help

i think cisco's 'show interface' commands are a model of what s/be
displayed.
these displays delinate between the functionality of the physical interface
and
the protocol that should operating on them.

~piranha@usaf

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Antony Stone
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:01 AM
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: off topic - hope somebody can help


On Friday 11 June 2004 12:42 pm, Gavin Hamill wrote:

> On Friday 11 June 2004 12:29, Antony Stone wrote:
> > Why shouldn't it?   The interface is still fully functioning even if you
> > choose to disconnect it - I think plenty of people would get upset if
the
> > interface went down on its own just because the cable got unplugged (or
> > the hub had a short power failure)...
>
> This is definately one of the biggest no-brain decisions Microsoft made
> with Windows 2000 - as soon as the link on an Ethernet adapter disappears,
> all open TCP sessions from the workstation are immediately reset.
>
> Multiply that by power-cycling a 48-port switch, and you have a headache
:/

Sheesh - I did not know that - I wrote what I did above on the basis that
this 
would be such a stupid and inconvenient thing to do that of course nobody 
would implement it as a standard "feature".

Glad to know that no matter how hard I try, Microsoft still manages to
exceed 
my expectations of their inept design concepts.

Antony.

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