Bug 30069

Summary: netstat man page doesn't describe the meaning of *
Product: Documentation Reporter: Andrew Stevenson <andrew>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Andrew Stevenson 2001-08-25 07:00:01 UTC 
netstat -i shows the state of the network interfaces in the machine. It places
a * after the name of a device that is "down" however the manpage does not
mention this.

I wasn't sure if I should describe the interface as "down" or "not up". "down"
reads better but "not up" is what the code is actually testing for. I don't
know if it is possible (or if it ever will be possible) for an interface to
be not (up || down).
Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-28 13:45:48 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Applied after some minor changes, thanks! 

Regarding the up/down thing: IFF_UP is a flag like IFF_BROADCAST, 
IFF_NOARP, IFF_LINK0, etc., but the opposite of being up is down; 
thus, if the flag isn't set, the interface is administratively down. 
Reflecting this was one of my changes. 

Thanks!