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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network link detection
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 14:07:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110303140733.40307493@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110303193006.GA29129@svh.nico22.de>

Simple answer is use netlink. That is what all real services use (NM, Quagga, ...)
Netlink can be hard to parse, so I recommend using a wrapper library.

Simplest example is the link-event example in libmnl
  http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/index.html



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-03 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-03 19:30 Network link detection Nico Schümann
2011-03-03 20:03 ` Jesper Juhl
2011-03-03 20:45   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-03-03 21:38 ` Chris Friesen
2011-03-03 22:01   ` David Miller
2011-03-03 22:29     ` Nico Schümann
2011-03-07 19:49       ` Dan Williams
2011-03-03 23:54     ` Chris Friesen
2011-03-03 22:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-03-04  6:35   ` Nico Schümann

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