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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