On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:56:13 +0200 mbartolo <mb4rt0l0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi boys, > > Is some mechanism which can I use to notify user space program > asynochronously that link on my ethernet device is is down or up ? ( I can't > use polling like ethtool - i think that control every second state of link on > ethernet through some of ioctl is no good). Use netlink to monitor the device. read source in iproute2/ip/ipmon.c to get the general idea. > Is good idea to use inotify on file /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier ? Please NO > thanks for suggestion > -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
