Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:20:47 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> To: Yousif Hassan <yousif@alumni.jmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network interface monitoring? Message-ID: <20080123222047.GA14264@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <1201125022.2106.67.camel@localhost> References: <1201125022.2106.67.camel@localhost>
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--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:50:22PM -0500, Yousif Hassan wrote: > Net-gurus: >=20 > I hope this is the right list to write to regarding this question (feel > free to redirect me to ports@ if that sounds more appropriate). >=20 > I'm looking for a facility to automatically detect network interface > carrier state changes (a network cable gets plugged/unplugged; a > laptop's wireless button gets turned on/off; etc.) and then to run a > user script on it. The use case, fairly obvious I guess, is to execute > ifconfig and/or DHCP commands upon carrier detection; this will make my > laptop that much more useful. ;) devd already does a lot of this and is used to control dhclient execution. ifstated from openbsd is also in ports. -- Brooks --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHl72+XY6L6fI4GtQRAiB8AJ97wzGVB53w+3FkxcmazaGUuDZCAgCgoHfV Ygn4LrmrVGeQ5g5MCr1VjT4= =u+8f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--
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