From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marco d'Itri" Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 12:39:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Manage network links with hotplug? Message-Id: <20040321123951.GA4605@wonderland.linux.it> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mar 21, Joerg Sommer 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. The major problem is that there is no good way to assign an interface name to a specific hardware device (but this happens also without hotplug...). -- ciao, | Marco | [5218 coqCk7zBwtBZk] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel