On 13/09/2016 15:42, Roy Marples wrote: > OK, I've had a quick look over the code. > It looks like IFF_RUNNING is used to indicate whether a PPP session is > currently running or not as opposed to hardware resources being allocated. > > It strikes me that the easiest fix is to set IFF_RUNNING before calling > ifioctl_common if going_up and clear it if there is an error. > > We should also hook the interface link state code into ppp as well > because we should know when the link is ready for use. > > Any reason why this cannot be done?
Joerg already commited code to change link_status which should fix this problem. Here's a patch which Joerg did and I changed so that ifconfig can report the link status. http://www.netbsd.org/~roy/ppp_link.patch Roy
