On Thursday 28 February 2008, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:58:13PM +0000, Ed W wrote:
> >> I get stuff when I plug and unplug stuff, but nothing when I put
> >> the network cable in/out.
> >> However, something appears in dmesg
> >
> > dmesg shows printk() text from drivers. The driver is saying that it
> > got a notice from hardware that link status changed.
> >
> > This is never signalled to userspace using hotplug. I don't believe
> > it is signalled to userspace at all. You would have to poll the
> > interface.
>
> OK, makes sense.

right, network link status is not a hotplug event

> What's the best software to use to achieve the required effect?  Is
> netplug the right solution?  I get the feeling that some stuff might
> already be integrated into baselayout, but not really sure how all the
> gentoo networking stuff works?  Any pointers?

look at the sys-apps/netplug package
-mike

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