[Click] cable check

[Bart Braem]

On Friday 22 February 2008 12:43:06 pieter wuytens wrote:
> is there a way to check if the cable is present in an eth0 if i plug out
> the cable then click should detect this and switch to an other interface
> eth1. how should i do this? i tried it with a ping and when the ping loses
> packages then switch but this is really slow. so i hope there is a way to
> do this faster in click

You could script something with mii-tool, that's the linux tool to check for 
presence of a cable. But that's not Click of course.

Regards,
Bart
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Bart Braem
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