Re: [Linux-ATM-General] Sync status in userspace (was: Supporting tcpdump, pseudo interfaces, and DSL MTU's)

[Vincent Z. <vin...@se...>]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 06:36:24PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote:

||  On a side-note: does ATM even advertise "carrier" (such as sync on a DSL
||  link) in any detectable way to user-space?
||  
||  I'd like to have the pppoe and pppoatm plugins bomb out if carrier is down
||  on the DSL link you're trying to use them with.

I think a few weeks ago I saw a patch fly by on linux-kernel on signaling
sync status from the DSL driver to an upper layer, with the remark that
it would be useful to userspace. There's something there.

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