[Linux-ha-dev] Need to detect ethN down (but NOT ping)

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 19:37, tje <tje at cisco.com> wrote:
> Through an interface that *must* be up (or we should fail over), there is no
> address that can be the subject of a ping. Everything is dynamically
> assigned via DHCP, all L2 switching on that side is incapable of having even
> a loopback address.

ping the dhcp server?
ping google.com?