Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261294AbVAQINQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:13:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261634AbVAQINQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:13:16 -0500 Received: from news.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:12996 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261294AbVAQINC (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:13:02 -0500 Message-ID: <41EB600A.8050006@suse.de> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:49:46 +0100 From: Stefan Seyfried User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jyri.poldre@artecdesign.ee Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 18 J?ri P?ldre wrote: > My question is: Does the kernel handle the interface state/routing tables > modifications due to link changing automatically or is there some external > daemon required to do that. Any links are greatly appreciated. You might want to have a look at ifplugd (from memory: http://0pointer.de/~lennart/). It works very well for me (i ifup/ifdown my interfaces with it, works fine at least as long as there is only one cable plugged at a time :-) Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/