Thanks to the respondees..
Original question:
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What I have found during my testing is that if I pull a cable from the back of
the machine the ethernet port does not automatically down itself. I can still
ping the port as if it is working correctly. The result is that OSPF does not
re-route around the problem which kind of defeats the object of what I am doing.
If I manually down the port ( ifconfig tu1 down ) OSPF then re-routes, however I
need this to happen automatically.
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It appears that I was asking too much of the TULIP ethernet cards we are using,
but on the plus side things are working exactly as they should.
I have discovered that our Solaris machines work much the same way when pulling
cables and the script we use has been reporting the wrong thing for the last 18
months! Whoops! It is the `ifconfig <device> down` that works differently
between the OS's and probably caused my confusion.
I think I am going to have a go with NetRAIN ( As suggested, cheers ) , as it
seems to do what I am am looking for.
Thanks again
Scott
Received on Fri Mar 23 2001 - 16:02:49 NZST