Ah, perfect! This did what I wanted. Thanks!
For the curious, I added this:
---< snip >---
#! /bin/sh
HAVELINK=$(mii-tool eth0 | grep "no link")
if [ -z "$HAVELINK" ]; then
echo eth0-link
else
echo eth0-nolink
fi
exit 0
---< snip >---
Then I set up a mapping in /etc/network/interfaces f
* On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:33:16AM -0800, David Roundy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:35:32AM -0500, Andrew M. Davenport wrote:
> > Unfortunately you can't really ping a remote host until after you have
> > configured the interface, which is what I want to avoid.
>
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 07:35:32AM -0500, Andrew M. Davenport wrote:
> Unfortunately you can't really ping a remote host until after you have
> configured the interface, which is what I want to avoid.
You could use mii-tool, which when run without arguments returns false if
there is no wire plug
Unfortunately you can't really ping a remote host until after you have
configured the interface, which is what I want to avoid.
-Andrew
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:37:39AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Andrew M. Daven
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Andrew M. Davenport wrote:
> Is there any way to do the equivalent in Linux? (ie. - detect whether the
> ethernet card has link and just don't even try to DHCP if it doesn't?)
ping some host and use script to respond?
>
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