(usagi-users 01983) Re: question about rtsol daemon

[Jonathan Khoo <jonath-k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dr Bieringer,

Thanks for the information.

Peter Bieringer wrote:

> --On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 02:11:37 PM -0500 Mitsuru KANDA
> <mk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > > Does anyone has a copy of a daemon for rtsol that will send a RS
> > > packet  when the link carrier on any of the devices changes?
> > >      
> > On Linux, there is no general way to detect the nic link carrier
> > status. (I misunderstand?)
> >    
>
> mii-tools will provide such information, also it looks like that
> there is work-in-progress on enabling still not-supported NIC drivers.
>
> # mii-tool
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link on
>
>        Peter
>
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