linux-kernel - Re: Network link detection

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Message-ID: <20110304063558.GA4774@svh.nico22.de>
Date:	Fri, 4 Mar 2011 07:35:58 +0100
From:	Nico Schümann <dev@...o22.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Network link detection

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:07:33PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Simple answer is use netlink. That is what all real services use (NM, Quagga, ...)
> Netlink can be hard to parse, so I recommend using a wrapper library.
> 
> Simplest example is the link-event example in libmnl
>   http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/index.html

The link-event example does about what I plan to do - and it just 
works. So that pointer was just right. Thank you!

Nico
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