[vdr] Re: Detection of network-cable

[Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>]

On Sunday 16 March 2003 20:57, you wrote:
> Hi again.
>
> A little bit offtopic, but i'm interested, if it is possible to detect the
> status of the network-connection. I ask, because it takes a lot of time to
> wait for the dhcp-client if there is no network connection present.
>
> Is it possible to parse a file in /proc or /dev (i'm using devfs and a
> kernel 2.4.20) to see, if there is a network cable (or better: a network
> link) available? If it is possible, i would only start the dhcp client, if
> there is a network available.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Oliver

You are searching for "ifplugd" :
http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/

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