Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:38:35 -0600 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Network link detection |
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On 03/03/2011 01:30 PM, Nico Schümann wrote: > Dear kernel developers, > > currently I'm looking for a way to find out whether a network link went > down or up. Of course there is mii-tool, which can watch devices, too. > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find out a way to be notified about > link status changes asynchronously. Is there a way? I'm looking for > something like "inotify for link states".
You might look at whether you could write a kernel module to register for NETDEV_CHANGE notifications and pass that back to userspace.
Chris
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