Bugs in network manager

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky gmail com>]

Recently I installed ubuntu 8.10.

I found few bugs in new network manager, and I like to report them here.
I will also fill them at bugzilla.


1. any wireless connection marked as "system setting" doesn't work, nm
attempts to connect but fails.
Such connections confuse the nm to the point that it might even forget
about a connection and create a new one, I not sure about this, but I
avoid them now, as they really are unstable, nm even crashed few times
when system wide connections were there. On top of that to switch
between local and system connection it in not enought to toggle the
checkbox, but you must change any setting with the checkbox.

2. Auto enabled wired connections "Auto eth0" appear on each boot.
This means that even if I set up a manual connection and make it
autoconnect, on next boot "Auto eth0" will reappear and be used instead
of manual connection. Editing "auto eth0" doesn't help, it is reset
after boot.



3. Even if I tell nm not to remember VPN password it still uses same
password if VPN connection failed (I talk about pptp) 
The problem is that I connect to network that uses one time password
generator combined with pin.
This means that if I mistype the pin or password, or time runs out, 
I can't reconnect since nm uses now surly invalid password.


4. Link-local is broken, this is not your failt, the problem is that
avahi-autopid uses dbus to connect to some service, but it is forbidden
by dbus even for root, I fixed this, and I post details later.

5. If nat modules aren't compiled in kernel there is no warning about
that, but connection sharing just fails, I din't yet test this with nat
modules, would be fine to add description stating that this is NAT.



6. There is no way to tell with connection should control default
gateway.
I connect to my university via vpn to watch lectures, but I don't want
it to be the gateway, I only want vpn for their netmask.


7. Same when I use wired connection to my second laptop, for speed
reasons.
I know that I can provide no default gateway for connection, but this is
not enough, and on top of that this is only possible for static address,
but I can't use static address for my isp.


8. More to come.


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky