Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2003 00:45:53 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] netplug, a daemon that handles network cables getting plugged in and out |
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On 08.29, Jeff Garzik wrote: > J.A. Magallon wrote: > > On 08.28, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > > > >>Netplug is a daemon that responds to network cables being plugged in or > >>out by bringing a network interface up or down. This is extremely > >>useful for DHCP-managed systems that move around a lot, such as laptops > >>and systems in cluster environments. > >> > >>For more details and download instructions, see the netplug homepage: > >>http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/ > >> > > > > > > I feel sorry, but did you ever knew this existed ? > > > > http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ > > > ifplugd doesn't appear to use netlink. Did I miss something? > > netlink is definitely the preferred way to get link notification. Maybe > the two authors can work together to merge the best parts of both... >
That would be very nice, but there is still a problem. Does netlink solve the fact that there are cards (at least in 2.4) that do not support any detection method:
ne2k-pci SIOCETHTOOL failed (Operation not permitted) SIOCGMIIPHY failed (Operation not permitted) SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (Operation not supported)
3c59x (3c980-TX) SIOCETHTOOL failed (Operation not permitted) SIOCGMIIPHY failed (Operation not permitted) SIOCDEVPRIVATE: unplugged
3c59x (3c905C-TX/TX-M) SIOCETHTOOL failed (Operation not supported) SIOCGMIIPHY: link beat detected SIOCDEVPRIVATE: link beat detected
e100 SIOCETHTOOL: link beat detected SIOCGMIIPHY: link beat detected SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (Operation not supported)
e1000 SIOCETHTOOL: link beat detected SIOCGMIIPHY: link beat detected SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (Operation not supported)
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