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Old 09-15-2011
Question How to detect the network cable status with c programming on AIX
Hello,

Is there any API or any other approach to detect whether the network cable is connected to the network adapter, say, en0, en1 or en2?

The OS is AIX6.1.

Thank you.
Last edited by zephyrbj; 09-15-2011 at 09:52 PM.. Reason: provide more info
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Old 09-16-2011
Often, the man page for a command will refer to the system call that got the information. If all else fails, popen() your favorite network status command and parse the output.
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Old 09-16-2011
Disclaimer: I have absolutely no experience with AIX.

Most systems provide this type of information via ioctl on a socket fd.

Regards,
Alister
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Old 09-16-2011
Running a command that gets what you want through strace/truss/tusc can tell you what it called.
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Old 11-06-2011
I am not sure about API but you could entstat command
like entstat -d ent0 |grep Status
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