On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would
like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something
like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in
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Well I sort of do this allready I have a laptop that has the Potato distro on
it, I use both ethernet and ppp,
I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no
ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned
to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote:
Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro
on it, I use both ethernet and ppp,
I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no
ethernet connection, then no IP is
I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would like
to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something like
this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in getting
an address and starting diald if it didn't.
Good luck,
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would
like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something
like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in
getting an address and starting diald
Since the ethernet driver will detect carrier on the ethernet if you could
detect the error correctly you'd be able to know if the ethernet was hooked up.
Trying to send a packet is easy. Trapping the error correctly may be the hard
part. If the kernel would log such a message then you could
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