On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, James Cheng <jcheng@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am on an embedded system. I'd like to receive notification of when a network interface has become available. This is to handle the case when the system is booted up without any network plugged in, and then someone plugs in a network at some point later. Ideally, I'd like to be notified when the interface actually receives a DHCP address, but if that's not possible, then a notification on the network being plugged in would work as well. > Have you looked at ifplugd? It notices link up and down and will configure and de-configure the interface. > Can udev help me with this? Can I write a rule that runs some sort of program when this happens? I saw references on the mailing list to ethtool or some other things, but I wasn't sure what the latest status was. > > Thanks! > -James > HTH, -Bob -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
