[PLUG] Auto-detection of ethernet cable
Cooper Stevenson
cooper at linux-enterprise.net
Mon Dec 30 10:54:03 UTC 2002
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On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 10:39, Benjamin Prew wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to detect if an ethernet card has a
> cable plugged into it?
>
> I currently have a laptop and use DHCP just about everywhere I go. I
> would like to have dhclient (debian 3.0r0) start only when a cable is
> plugged into the net card, similar to win2k/xp.
>
> Thanks
>
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> Ben
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> bprew (at) logiccloud.com
>
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