From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264478AbTH1Wes (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:34:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264479AbTH1Wes (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:34:48 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:22743 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264478AbTH1Wer (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:34:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4E8373.1040204@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:34:27 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J.A. Magallon" CC: "Bryan O'Sullivan" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] netplug, a daemon that handles network cables getting plugged in and out References: <1062105712.12285.78.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> <20030828215417.GA22215@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <20030828215417.GA22215@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org J.A. Magallon wrote: > On 08.28, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > >>Netplug is a daemon that responds to network cables being plugged in or >>out by bringing a network interface up or down. This is extremely >>useful for DHCP-managed systems that move around a lot, such as laptops >>and systems in cluster environments. >> >>For more details and download instructions, see the netplug homepage: >>http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/ >> > > > I feel sorry, but did you ever knew this existed ? > > http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/ ifplugd doesn't appear to use netlink. Did I miss something? netlink is definitely the preferred way to get link notification. Maybe the two authors can work together to merge the best parts of both... Jeff