On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > ...
> > If you simply run routing software on the host the host's applications
> > still can't know about local link connectivity, and they won't know
> > about the routing software either.
>
> Again, why can't the host's applications that care open a routing
> socket and to hear all about interfaces coming and going?
>
> Or is all the world a Solaris box?
interfaces going up/down is not the same as interfaces coming or
going.
> > ...
> > A simple function call to find out would suffice. No MIB. Minimal
> > running code. But routers are integrated beasts, while typical
> > endhosts aren't.
>
> What are the decades old getifaddrs() and the merely decade old
> routing sockets, chopped liver?
And what gets to mark the interface as up or down?
L.
<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>
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