Re: pessimistic NetworkManager and off-line mode (was: Diskless clients and NetworkManager)

[David Sundqvist <glist dystopic org>]

Quoting Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>:

> For instance this most obvious false positive: you are connected but not
> to the internet. Then why would pidgin try to reach MSN servers in this
> case?

There's also the granularity issue; one can't expect NM to determine  
what ports are blocked by firewalls, proxied, etc. So any picture  
applications get will be somewhat murky in either case, but I'd guess  
most application developers are aiming more at getting some kind of  
best-effort information.

> 3) NM could simply lean towards the optimistic side and report
> connectivity as soon as in doubt. Maybe NM should trigger off-line modes
> ONLY when it is 200% sure that it OWNS EVERY single interface in the
> system and is positively sure they are ALL absolutely out of order.

Defaulting to on when in doubt would certainly solve it for me at  
least, and I can't immediately think of a situation where it would  
cause problems for applications that don't need to be handled anyway.

David

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