From 65c009df1c2b3432cb3686a6a3941965fabcbbfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:32:00 +0000 Subject: preliminary work for ifplugd 0.25 git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/ifplugd/trunk@110 2bf48fe7-cfc1-0310-909f-d9042e1e0fef --- man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in b/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in index 684ba02..755d64c 100644 --- a/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in +++ b/man/ifplugstatus.8.xml.in @@ -39,13 +39,14 @@

The APIs are tried in the following order:

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First the cleanest API: IFF_RUNNING (aka ifconfig API)

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Second the newest API: SIOCETHTOOL (aka ethtool API)

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Third the next older API: SIOCGMIIREG (aka mii-diag API)

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First the newest API: SIOCETHTOOL (aka ethtool API)

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Second the next older API: SIOCGMIIREG (aka mii-diag API)

Than the WLAN API: wireless extension (aka iwconfig API)

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Finally the oldest API: SIOCPRIV (aka mii-tool API)

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Followed by the cleanest API: IFF_RUNNING (aka ifconfig API)

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It may be used in shell script since it returns the +

The oldest API (SIOCPRIV aka mii-tool API) is not tested since it is obsolete.

+ +

ifplugstatus may be used in shell script since it returns the current status as return value. It is especially useful to detect the available APIs on the used network driver. (Option -v)

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