Monitoring....

[Jakob Oestergaard]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:13:48PM +0100, john152 at libero.it wrote:
> Hi all,
> i'm using a Linux OS and i connect to internet by a LAN.
> I' ve seen that my ethernet card use a led  to show if i am connected or not.
> Is there a way to monitor (  via kernel, via software, ecc....) when the led of this card is on/off?
> Who can i ask for to?
> I'd like to do a code  that monitors the link status (link active and connected to net or not...) and gives me an error if this status changes. Is there any software today that does so?
> Please help me 

mii-tool will show you the link status on devices that use mii
interfaces:

[root at albatros root]# mii-tool 
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok

I do wonder how you will make the node send you an e-mail if the link
fails though   ;)

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