linkloop for RH

[itai weisman]

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

Itai

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

Yes, see

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

Also you can use arping

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

[Ivan Ferreira]

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.

[itai weisman]

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

[kevin leong]

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

Thanks
Kevin