[gentoo-dev] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[gentoo-dev] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[Pat Double]

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The following bug has been submitted (my me)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7994

that allows a network interface to be started and stopped based on the the 
media status. Basically when you plug in the network cable, the interface is 
started, when you disconnect, it is stopped. This is very nice for laptops 
with built in NICs and I'm sure in other cases.

The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the lists for people 
who would like this functionality before it will be added to portage. If you 
would like to see this patch added, please reply to this message.

Thanks!

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"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[William M. Brack]

This would be very useful for my installation on an IBM T30. 
Currently I have change the timeout for dhcp, and modify the
net.ethx script to return "success" when timeout occurs.  Ugly.

Bill
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> The following bug has been submitted (my me)
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7994
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> that allows a network interface to be started and stopped based on
> the the  media status. Basically when you plug in the network
> cable, the interface is  started, when you disconnect, it is
> stopped. This is very nice for laptops  with built in NICs and I'm
> sure in other cases.
>
> The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the
> lists for people  who would like this functionality before it will
> be added to portage. If you  would like to see this patch added,
> please reply to this message.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[George Shapovalov]

Yep, I would like that too.

George


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> > The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the
> > lists for people  who would like this functionality before it will
> > be added to portage. If you  would like to see this patch added,
> > please reply to this message.
> >
> > Thanks!


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[Tom Prado]

Sign me up!   I also vote for suspending the net connection instead of 
stopping it.  It would be nice to have the network interface state 
detectable during initial boot up too so we don't have to wait for dhcpcd 
to timeout the first time.

Tom Prado

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, George Shapovalov wrote:

> Yep, I would like that too.
> 
> George
> 
> 
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> > > The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the
> > > lists for people  who would like this functionality before it will
> > > be added to portage. If you  would like to see this patch added,
> > > please reply to this message.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on media

[Mark Gordon]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:44:48 -0500 (EST)
Tom Prado <tprado@charter.net> wrote:

> 
> Sign me up!   I also vote for suspending the net connection instead of
> stopping it.  It would be nice to have the network interface state 
> detectable during initial boot up too so we don't have to wait for
> dhcpcd to timeout the first time.
> 
> Tom Prado
> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, George Shapovalov wrote:
> 
> > Yep, I would like that too.
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > 
> > [skipped]
> > > > The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the
> > > > lists for people  who would like this functionality before it
> > > > will be added to portage. If you  would like to see this patch
> > > > added, please reply to this message.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!

I would like it to suspend the network rather than stopping it as well.
In the office it is not that uncommon for me to lend my notebooks
network connection to someone visiting me.
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