viveks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does ifconfig show the link status of an interface? if yes, what is the flag.

The "RUNNING" flag shows whether the link is up -- if the driver
supports link up/down reporting.  (All of the drivers that come with
OpenSolaris should support that, but some third party ones do not.)

> If no, is there any ioctl to find the link status.?

SIOCGLIFFLAGS will give you the IFF_RUNNING flag, which is what ifconfig
shows.

> Is the Interface flag UP/DOWN is equivalent to enable/disable on windows?

No.  Enable/disable on Windows is an administrative state.  Link up/down
on Solaris (and other OSes, for that matter) is a physical state.

> What does the flag RUNNING displayed by ifconfig mean?

It means that the link is up (or at least that it cannot be reported as
down).

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