On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:04:22 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> By the way, last time I looked at the ifplugd source it was using
> outdated and incorrect ways to detect carrier. It should just
> open a netlink socket and wait for carrier event. Instead it seems
> to muck around looking at MII, wireless API and other ways
> that only work on some devices.  In current kernels, all
> network devices report carrier the same way.

Thanks for clarifying that. I suspected this, but wasn't sure.

Are there any plans to improve ifplugd?

-- 
Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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