On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:58 +0100, Roman Maeder wrote: > is there an official way to check for the presence of an ethernet cable for > an interface? If I config an interface with ONBOOT=yes but there is no cable > plugged in, it nevertheless configures the interface, which might later > startups such as sendmail waste a lot of time trying to access the > nonfunctional network. It also may keep default routes around that get in > the way if I later fire up the wireless interface. There is a program > mii-tool that can tell you whether the link is up: Hallo rem, wie gehts? There is a package ifplugd available from freshrpms or dag ... This is a daemon that monitors an ethernet devices and calls ifup if e.g. a cable is plugged in and ifdown if the cable is unplugged. This works quite well on my notebook. Regards -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
