Re: ifwatchd(8) and interface carrier changes

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 04:06:56PM +0900, Masanobu SAITOH wrote:
> One of the way is to poll the link status via timer.
> I don't know whether sending a link status change event to the upper layer
> while an interface is down is worth or not...

I don't think it is.

Buf if there is a usefull application we could add an option to
ifwatchd to poll it from userland (with a configurable timer). I don't
see any obvious use for that though - Hauke, do you have one?

Martin