Re: restart mobile broadband

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 08:19 -0700, David L wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a newbie to NetworkManager and have a few
> questions.  I have a verizon wireless pcmcia
> card.  It is working with NetworkManager, but the
> connection drops from time to time and doesn't
> restart.  I have the "connect automatically"
> configuration option set, and that seems to work
> on startup.  But is doesn't reconnect automatically
> when the connection dies.  So, here are my
> questions:

Yeah, reconnect of a failed connection (as opposed to a
user-disconnected one) is definitely on the list.  I was planning on
doing some of the work for that in the 'inhibit' branch in git, so you
can track that there.  It won't be mobile-broadband-specific at first,
but the changes there will help out the mobile broadband stuff too.

Dan

> 1) Is there an option that I'm missing to tell it
> to reconnect automatically?
> 2) Is there a command-line method to start
> the connection so I can roll my own
> reconnection script?
> 3) Is there a way to reconnect a VPN
> connection when the mobile broadband
> connection is restarted?
> 4) Is there a way to keep track of total bytes
> transferred through a mobile broadband
> connection over multiple sessions?  I'd
> like to keep track of how close I'm getting
> to the Verizon 5GB monthly limit.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>               Dave
> 
> PS - I'm using fedora 11.
> 
> PPS - All in all, I'm pretty impressed
> with network manager.  kudos to the
> developers.  Of the new stuff
> I've tried in the past year or two,
> network manager was by far the most
> useful and most user friendly.
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