Re: [nv-l] if down/up

[John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell@uk.ibm.com>]

Pulling a cable is not always a fair
test.  The electical signals may float, leaving the adapter thinking
the cable is still in.
Do you get the same result if you go
to the far end of the cable and shutdown the interface on that equipment?
Do you know if the type of lan card
is supposed to detect cable outages?
Does 'netstat -in' show the interface
as down (asterisk against interface name)?

Sorry to only give questions not answers,
hope it helps.

John Gatrell

>I try to manage an AIX server only by
snmp but if someone remove the cable from one interface snmp agent doesn't
change the if oper status to down. any comments?