Re: link status changes forwarded to userspace?

Justin Guyett (justin@soze.net)
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:06:20 -0700 (PDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Anders Eriksson wrote:

> Is it possible to get the link status change (e.g. eth cable inserted in card)
> forwarded to userspace? I'd be cool to auto trigger dhcp on connect and
> silently skip the interface if no cable during boot.

you can get the link status from userspace, and that should be enough to
skip no-link interfaces during boot. mii-tool does it (comes with
net-tools).

justin

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