From: "[MOc]cda*mirabilos" <mirabilos@netcologne.de>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Network hardware: "Network Media Detection"
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:52:04 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00aa01c1755c$2a5159a0$25aefea9@ecce> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E167ja2-0004fF-00@carbon.btinternet.com> <9tpiio$n4u$1@cesium.transmeta.com>
> > That is, it detects the presence of a (10BaseT) cable in the back of
the
> > card.. and then does appropriate stuff (ifup/down, dhcpcd) when the
event
> > happens.
> This is basically taking the interface down when the link disappears
> (and vice versa.) Rather useful for portable systems. Don't think
> anyone has implemented it, but it should be easy enough to do.
pcmcia-cs has (had?) this, just edit /etc/pcmcia/blah-script...
needed to do this to get the default route set on card load,
and removed on unload.
-mirabilos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-25 2:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-24 20:38 Network hardware: "Network Media Detection" Jeff Snyder
2001-11-25 1:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-11-25 2:52 ` [MOc]cda*mirabilos [this message]
2001-11-25 11:42 ` john slee
2001-11-25 11:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-25 12:05 ` linux 2.4.13 Kernel and Ext3 vs Ext2 Miguel Maria Godinho de Matos
2001-11-25 12:49 ` François Cami
2001-11-25 13:23 ` James Davies
2001-11-25 13:37 ` arjan
2001-11-25 14:28 ` James Davies
2001-11-25 16:59 ` Stefan Smietanowski
[not found] ` <1006698831.1212624.0@smtp018.mail.yahoo.com>
2001-11-25 14:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2001-11-25 19:00 ` J Sloan
2001-11-25 21:16 ` Marco Colombo
2001-11-25 18:46 ` J Sloan
2001-11-25 19:49 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-11-26 1:20 ` Horst von Brand
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