[nitrogen]

I've had a situation where an Ethernet connection would occasionally drop link for a very small fraction of a second, which unnecessarily shut down the interface and reset all TCP connections. Maybe a few second delay is too long, but 500ms seems reasonable. Also, maybe I wouldn't want to keep the old address blindly, but trigger a DCHP request if the link is dropped and restored before the timeout.

Also, thanks for the pointers into the source code. It looks like I would want to make the change around line 67 of net_backend_waitlink.c. I highly doubt I'll actually get around to doing it though :).

[ambrop7]

So you really need this, would that mean you may be able to use my language for something? If so, just say, and I can add this little feature, but I wouldn't like spending time for nothing :)

[nitrogen]

I haven't seen this problem recently, so don't worry about it. I appreciate the offer, though. Maybe some day I'll look into adding the feature for my embedded Linux systems, if I ever add Ethernet disconnection detection.