Re: ppp using NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:32 +0200, Tambet Ingo wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2007 5:20 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > I assume there's a way to get the DNS info and other stuff out of pppd
> > and push it to NM so that NM can handle the stuff instead?
> 
> Oh, yeah. The pppd module we have already does it and sends all the
> info (like ip, netmask, routes, dns, even wins) to NM. NM however just
> ignores it right now (see the nice FIXME: at
> nm-serial-device.c:ppp_ip4_config()). The main reason I haven't done
> it is yet is that I don't think libnl functions we have for setting
> all sorts of stuff (that's not about DNS though) work with ppp device.
> I'm not sure though. Anyway, once that fixme is fixed, we need to make
> pppd to not set it somehow and it's been a long time since I looked at
> it and I don't remember how easy that is.

Good question; I'll have to ask Tomas about that...

dan