topic Re: linkloop for RH in Operating System - Linux

linkloop for RH

itai weisman — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:05:13 GMT

hi,
does anyone know if there is a HPUX like linkloop(1M) command???
or any other way to probe lan connectivity?
thx ppl

Itai

Re: linkloop for RH

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:00:57 GMT

Yes, see

http://freshmeat.net/projects/linkloop/

Also you can use arping

http://freshmeat.net/projects/arping/

Re: linkloop for RH

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:03:51 GMT

Also you shold know that if you use the "watch ifconfig" command, and see incrementing input packets, even with no network activity on this hosts, you is pretty sure that should have physical network connectivity.

There are always packets transversing the physical link.

Re: linkloop for RH

itai weisman — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:24:05 GMT

thanks, that helped me a lot.
do you know a version for Solaris as well?

Re: linkloop for RH

kevin leong — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:51:27 GMT

HI
U can try the command mii-tool as well to detect the connection .

Thanks
Kevin