Hi,

Does anyone know of a way that I can monitor the network adapter?

Windows pops a message when the network cable is unplugged/plugged in and I
would like to log this somehow.

Does anybody know if this is possible?

Bilbo

Many NIC cards have within their Advanced Properties box a
option that reads something like "Log Link State Event" which
will write connectivity lost events to the System Event Log.

Click Start, Run (Type) DevMgmt.Msc [Enter]
Expand Network Adapters category
Double-Click the primary adapter.
Select Advanced (TAB)
Scroll down the Property items, looking for the Log option

"user" <a> wrote in message news:%23jqX5LasHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a way that I can monitor the network adapter?
>
> Windows pops a message when the network cable is unplugged/plugged in and
> I would like to log this somehow.
>
> Does anybody know if this is possible?
>
> Bilbo
>

Many thanks for the reply, sadly my NIC does not have this option.

However I have found that an error gets written to the event log if I
plug/unplug the network cable so this should be sufficient.



"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:OD3naVasHHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Many NIC cards have within their Advanced Properties box a
> option that reads something like "Log Link State Event" which
> will write connectivity lost events to the System Event Log.
>
> Click Start, Run (Type) DevMgmt.Msc [Enter]
> Expand Network Adapters category
> Double-Click the primary adapter.
> Select Advanced (TAB)
> Scroll down the Property items, looking for the Log option
>
> "user" <a> wrote in message
> news:%23jqX5LasHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way that I can monitor the network adapter?
>>
>> Windows pops a message when the network cable is unplugged/plugged in and
>> I would like to log this somehow.
>>
>> Does anybody know if this is possible?
>>
>> Bilbo
>>
>
>