nic + detecting the presence of a carrier

[Gregory Machin]

Stunning data ... but doesnt tell me if the nic is unpluged .. :-(

On 8/31/06, Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/31/06, Gregory Machin <gregory.machin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there not a value in /proc i can get ??
> >
> >
> > On 8/31/06, Frank Elsner <Elsner at zrz.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:04:12 +0200 Gregory Machin wrote:
> > > > Hi.
> > > > I need to write a script the can restart services based on where a
> cable
> > is
> > > > plugged into a nic or not ..
> > > > How do I get the status of the carrier on the nic ...
> > >
> > > The output of "ethtool ethX" contains the line
> > >
> > >                Link detected: yes
> > >
> > > and the output of "mii-tool ethX" shows
> > >
> > >                    eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> > >
> > > which both should be usable for your purpose.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --Frank Elsner
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>
> Hi  Gregory Machin!
>
> You might find this interesting (note: email wrap will probably mess
> up the display, I needed to put my terminal to full screen to properly
> see it):
>
> tod at tod-desktop:~/Desktop$ cat /proc/net/dev
> Inter-|
> Receive                                                |  Transmit
> face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed
> multicast|bytes    packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
>     lo:     832      13    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 832      13    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   eth0:  862723    2467    0    0    0     0          0         0
> 614738    2224    0    0    0     0       0          0
>   sit0:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0
>   0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
> tod at tod-desktop:~/Desktop$
>
> Good hunting!
>
> Tod
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Gregory Machin
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www.linuxpro.co.za
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