Re: NM support for Bluetooth NAP connections possible?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 07:15 -0400, steve wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While I work away on nm-os, I've also got my bluetooth hardware working 
> under linux, and find bluetooth wireless networking to be very 
> convenient around the home.
> 
> I've tested IPsec over Bluetooth NAP and it actually worked! but NM 
> doesn't let me launch vpn configurations because it thinks the network 
> is unplugged.
> 
> the default device for pand is bnep0.
> 
> If I manually change this to say... eth3 I'm good.
> 
> While configuring bluetooth NAP connections through NM would be cool, 
> that's a big project. I'm wondering tho if there's anyway for NM to 
> handle unrecognized network connections such that if there's any type of 
> network connectivity (managed or otherwise) at least let me attempt to 
> launch a VPN connection?
> 
> What do you think?

There are patches for bluetooth PAN in Gnome.org CVS, though I've taken
a look at them and I think they need at least another revision (use
blocking D-Bus calls, and I think they are a bit too high-level).  We
definitely want to support various BT network configurations including
PAN and DUN.

NM won't (and shouldn't) try to handle unknown network connections;
there are just too many things to keep track of, and when you've done
that, you might as well just code up the necessary stuff to make it Just
Work.

Dan