Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

[Stefan Seyfried]

Jüri Põldre 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

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