Network interface failure detection

[lakshmi]

Sorry to have not qualified my question.

Actually I came across "IP Multipath" daemon
in Solaris which can determine whether the
communication failure was due to network
card failure or due to ethernet cable pull
out.

I was wondering if there was something similar
in Linux.

Thanks.

--- Mark Hahn <hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> > Does anybody know about a means by which 
> > it can be found out whether a network 
> > interface card has failed or somebody has
> > pulled out the ethernet cable?
> 
> yes: anyone who is even slightly involved knows
> about heartbeats.
> 
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