Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:08:45 +0530 From: "Sastry Tumuluri" <sas3@tumuluri.name> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Detecting LINK_UP / LINK_DOWN events Message-ID: <c315f8d20705211038s52f83ff5o14486a3a8b40fac3@mail.gmail.com>
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Friends,
I am trying to catch and do some extra processing on LINK_UP and LINK_DOWN
events for my net interfaces (e.g., notify my admin, log the event, ...).
Tried this on both FreeBSD 6.1 and on FreeBSD 6.2.
I tried using the devd.conf file with the following code (shows LINK_DOWN;
wrote similar stuff for LINK_UP):
notify 10 {
match "type" "LINK_DOWN";
action "logger -s alert: Caught LINK_DOWN on dev: $device-name
subsys: $subsystem";
};
Didn't work. I tried the above with both strict match conditions (using
vendor, device and class matches) as well as very general (like the above).
Didn't work.
I ran killed devd and ran it in the foreground with "devd -dD". Then I
logged into a different pty and used
ifconfig lnc0 down #(lnc0 is my ethernet device).
devd doesn't even seem to catch the event (no output at all - both on screen
and in syslog).
On the other hand, "nomatch" and "attach" messages do seem to get through (I
wrote similar stuff for nomatch & attach, and they are showing up at bootup
and in syslog).
What could I be doing wrong?
Regards,
==sas3==
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