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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:32:35 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ioctl() SOS -- Please help
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> "Ashish C. Nagre" wrote:
> > I have made a strange observation, when the following call is made:
> > [...]
> In case of address 0.0.0.0, the cygwin DLL knows, that the interface
> isn't connected and so returns the flags
>         IFF_NOTRAILERS | IFF_BROADCAST
> The hex value of the above flags is 0x34.

Oops, this isn't correct, is it? I have checked it on linux. The
ppp interfaces, which are not connected are nevertheless up and
running!

I will patch it ASAP.

Regards,
Corinna

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