About network device

[Danny Kukawka]

On Montag, 6. August 2007, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:59:42 +0200 Atton Jonathan wrote:
> > I need watching my network device: if he is up, if the ip address is
> > modified ...
> >
> > Atm i use Hal to have the device list and if a device is add or
> > remove. I can retrieve his name with net.interface.
> >  Some questions:
> >
> > - net.80203.link is not yet implemented right ?
> > - net.interface_up seems doesn't work on my gentoo with hal 0.5.9, is
> > it implemented or not ?
>
> I brought this up a bit ago, and I've written a HAL addon for an app
> I've written which take care of some of the unimplemented net.*
> properties (including net.interface_up and net.80203.link).  See here:

This is not implemented in HAL because this is (now) the job of 
NetworkManager. You  should be able to get all the information from there via 
the DBus interface.

Danny