May 052011
 

Did you ever wish you could start certain scripts only when you are bringing the network up and then stop them when bring the network down?

For the longest time, I was using wicd to manage network connections.  At some point and time I decided to take a look at NetworkManager.

Using network manager, you can use the dispatcher to run scripts based on network connection, runlevel, etc.

This is how I got it working in gentoo linux and a few example scripts.

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