[vdr] Re: Detection of network-cable

["Oliver Friedrich" <oliver@familie-friedrich.de>]

Cool, that could it be ... will try it.
Thanks.


Oliver

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> From: vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounce@linuxtv.org]On Behalf Of
> Steffen Barszus
> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 9:11 PM
> To: vdr@linuxtv.org
> Subject: [vdr] Re: Detection of network-cable
>
>
> 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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