On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 06:33:28PM -0400, James Sharp wrote:
> 
> I have a big mac ethernet card in a sparc 5 running NetBSD 1.4K (but I
> saw the same issue with NetBSD 1.4).
> 
> ifconfig reports a status of "no carrier" on be0, but traffic properly
> flows in and out of the card.
> 
> I'm curious if this should properly display a carrier detect or if it will
> show "no carrier" no matter what.
> 

Mine does the same thing, but it works so I don't care very much (though it
did confuse me for a long time):
xiamin@ghostpriest ~ % ifconfig be0
be0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: Ethernet 10baseT (10baseT half-duplex)
        status: no carrier
        inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255

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