On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 02:23:26PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:53:48PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >>Yikes! That's a bad idea, if you mean doing it in syslog. > > > >Why? Because of the risk of filling logs? If an interface is expected > >to flap a _lot_ then a knob to turn off logging about it would be > >useful. But I expect that such situations are so rare that any concern > >about filling logs is unrealistic. > > > > Quite the contrary! If you run dhcp on multiple interfaces, then it > will periodically send probes out the network (or try at least). If you > have an interface marked up, but the cable is disconnected, then it will > flood the logs.
What?! Why should dhcpagent's sending a broadcast cause a link down message to be logged? Either the link status changed or it didn't; if it didn't change, don't log it.
