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Meino Christian Cramer wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> sorry for being off topic, but I think, folks of this list have the |
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> knowledge to answer my question and I have no idea who to ask else... |
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> I need to check from within a C-program whether the computer, the |
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> program is running on (OS: Linux), is connected to the ethernet. The |
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> program is running under root privilege. Before doing anything else |
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> with eth0, I want to check the link-LED of the ethernet card...so to |
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> say. |
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> I sthere any "legal" way to do such things under Linux? |
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> Thank you very much for any help and your understanding for my |
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> situation. |
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> Kind regards, |
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> mcc |
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mii-tool can detect the status of an ethernet link, though last I |
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checked it did not work for 1Gbps connections. Perhaps you can look at |
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its source, and figure out how it is doing it. |
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