"James D. Parra" writes:

I am looking for something a little more efficient. Since Yast shows if a nic is connected or not I am assuming that is using a command that shows the connection status of the nics. Any idea what command(s) that may be?

Is this: ,---- | yast lan list `---- what you are looking for? Charles -- We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! (Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan)

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:38:44PM -0700, James D. Parra wrote:

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Thanks Patrick, however that doesn't me if the cat 5 cable is connected or not. For example, if the computer has six nics and i have only one cabled, Yast will show which one is connected and I can set up setup that nic with an IP address. I am looking for a way in the command, prior to assigning IP addresses to the nics, which nic is cabled and connect to a network.

Many thanks,

James

Mine shows Rx & Tx packets, doesn't yours? ~~~~~~~

Well, here is the issue; from a Rescue session I need to assign an address to a nic that is actually connected to the network. Running ifconfig only shows only 'lo' until I assign an address to an eth* device. Afterwards, ifconfig will show eth0, for example, if that is the nic i added the address to. I could go and add an address to eth0, ping the network, if it fails remove the IP and add it to eth1, ping the network, and so on until I find the the live nic. I am looking for something a little more efficient. Since Yast shows if a nic is connected or not I am assuming that is using a command that shows the connection status of the nics. Any idea what command(s) that may be?

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