netplug [was Re: Automatically bringing ethernet interfaces up when the cableis connected]

[Bill Nottingham]

Bryan O'Sullivan (bos at serpentine.com) said: 
> Try netplug, from http://www.red-bean.com/~bos/ - I have RPM packages
> available that ought to work on Red Hat 8 through FC1.
> 
> I wrote it, and it works well for me on FC1 on my Dell and IBM laptops. 
> It doesn't depend on any external oddities such as libdaemon, and it
> uses the approved kernel interfaces for determining what's going on with
> network interfaces.
> 
> I'm interested in seeing this integrated into FC2, and I'll be happy to
> help with problem reports or packaging issues.

What's been discussed is the kernel natively exporting these
interfaces over dbus, and handling them that way.

Bill