[SOLVED] problem in making a daemon for network auto-connection

Question

I want to make a daemon that when I start my computer and my router is not already available, to auto connect to my router when it becomes available later without rebooting
So I thought in making a script and running it as a daemon which will hopefully solve my problems. The thing is I'm having a hard time isolating only the routers ip address. Here's how I thought the script should look like
#!/bin/sh
anet="$(ifconfig | awk "/router_address/{print $field}")"
if [ $anet = "router_address" ]
then
/etc/rc.d/network restart
fi
But although awk isolates the line with my router address it doesn't recognizes any field. Any value I assume to $field doesn't isolates anything so I could guess the right field (or fields) for the router's ip address.
Last edited by I'mGeorge (2011-03-31 09:46:05)

Answer 1

litemotiv wrote:Not a direct answer to your question, but have you considered using Netcfg for this? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
thx a bunch, all I needed was ifplugd daemon. That script I thought about was a bad idea anyway 'cause continuous starting or restarting your network can't be good so I had to work more on it while ifplugd made everything happen clean and easily.