[NBLUG/talk] Ethernet connection status

[Barry Stump]

Does anyone know of an easy way to determine the status of an ethernet 
connection from a shell script?  I'm hoping there's some parameter for 
ifconfig or possibly something in the /proc filesystem that will do it. 
I'd like to be able to determine whether or not eth0 is up and connected. 
A disconnected cable at boot time is easy to detect because eth0 won't 
initialize and therefore won't show up in the output from ifconfig. 
However, disconnecting the cable once the box is running doesn't change 
the output, and I don't want to resort to ping.

-Barry

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