Re: Detecting Network connections...

["Andrew M. Davenport" <adavenpo@tropnevad.org>]

Unfortunately you can't really ping a remote host until after you have
configured the interface, which is what I want to avoid.  

			  		-Andrew

On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 01:37:39AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Andrew M. Davenport wrote:
> > Is there any way to do the equivalent in Linux?  (ie. - detect whether the
> > ethernet card has link and just don't even try to DHCP if it doesn't?)
> 
> ping some host and use script to respond?
> > 
> 
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