Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <37546393.3975110B@vinschen.de> Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:49:55 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ashishcn@cisco.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: ioctl() SOS -- Please help References: <374C9D2B.CBDD1EC4@cisco.com> <374CA453.6E07EFD1@vinschen.de> <374D85CF.AC0FFED3@cisco.com> <374D9F8D.3F370DF3@vinschen.de> <37544AE1.AFE086C@cisco.com> <37545B80.4C31E1D1@vinschen.de> <37545F83.7246ECB8@vinschen.de> <375461F2.72545867@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Ashish C. Nagre" wrote: > > Hi, > I am sorry but this mail confused me a bit. Can you elaborate ? > Are you saying that there is a problem with the cygwin1.dll which > supports the ioctl() call ? > Please do let me know. It says, that a _disconnected_ interface is interpreted as _down_. This is an error in cygwin. Await the patch in one of the next snapshots. Again: The description in my previous mail is only relevant for RAS interfaces (pppX). Local ethernet cards (ethX) are interpreted as UP and RUNNING in any case. Corinna -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com