Re: Patch: Idea for RFC2863 conform OperStatus

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Hello!

> status. At the moment the only status is IFF_RUNNING in the ifi_flags.
> So the question was could we use ifi_change to send the other pieces of
> info

No, of course. The question is really strange. :-)

> If not, could we take advantage of that pad in the ifinfomsg?

ifi_flags has lots of spare space, 16 bits.

And the second: IFF_RUNNING seems to be enough. Their "dormant" and
"lowerLayerDown" are logically undistinuishable.

Alexey