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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Raúl Hernández" <rauhersu@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ip monitoring
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:56:40 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122115640.55c69a0d@s6510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f847c820901211618p476f3b71kbc994680d4a0a2e8@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:18:35 +0100
Raúl Hernández <rauhersu@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Just a quick question regarding ip monitoring: I am trying to develop
> a user space app which must be aware of changes related to ip
> management and link status (up, down, this-ip-has-been added,..). So
> far, I am trying to avoid polling the link/ip to notice these changes
> as I would like to be notified asynchronously.
> 
> Is there any API/quick fix for user space apps to get that (I am
> trying to avoid any kernel development as well) ?
> 
> Thx!
> 
> Best regards,
> Raul
> 

netlink api - look at netplugd or "ip monitor" source.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-22  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-22  0:18 ip monitoring Raúl Hernández
2009-01-22  0:56 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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