From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Manage network links with hotplug?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:14:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040324231426.GA20651@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnc5qu32.1f2.joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:53:55AM +0000, Joerg Sommer wrote:
> begin "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT> wrote:
> > On Mar 21, Joerg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> >
> >> is it possible to manage network links with hotplug. Is there a hotplug
> >> event if the cable is pluged in the network card? Is would supersede
> >> tools like ifplugd which poll the state of the network link.
> > Yes, look at /etc/hotplug/net.agent.
>
> But I don't get any hotplug event. I set export DEBUG=yes in
> /sbin/hotplug, pulled out the network cable, waited a few seconds and
> pluged it in, but I didn't get any message in /var/log/user.log and
> nothing happend.
Oops, sorry, network cable events do not generate hotplug events. I was
thinking of network device adds and removes. You will have to use
ethtool or netlink to detect loss of the ethernet link.
Good luck,
greg k-h
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-24 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-21 11:11 Manage network links with hotplug? Joerg Sommer
2004-03-21 12:39 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-22 15:35 ` Greg KH
2004-03-22 17:24 ` Marco d'Itri
2004-03-22 17:44 ` Greg KH
2004-03-24 11:53 ` Joerg Sommer
2004-03-24 23:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-03-25 16:25 ` Gioele Barabucci
2004-03-26 23:02 ` Greg KH
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