From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:35:20 +0000 Subject: Re: Manage network links with hotplug? Message-Id: <20040322153520.GA14807@kroah.com> 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 Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > 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...). What is wrong with using nameif for this? thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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