On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 04:28:48PM +0000, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > | Why do you want it up when it's not in use? > > Simple.. to detect when I connect it to a cable and to automatically run > dhcpcd > or dhclient to fetch for a network config. > Basically, in my university i have to jump from room to room, disconnecting > and > connecting back in onother room, basically.. allways on the move.. ehehe > The ability to detect a wired cable and try to get a network config is > pretty nice. > But having those messages in the console just because I desconnected the > cable > is not very nice.. I could go for a message like.. lost connection bla > bla.. and > ~ another one when it got a connection back.. .but the present kind of > verbosity > is not welcome.
You should check ifplugd or one of the many similar packages available in debian that does exactly what you want. Christophe -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
