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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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  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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