Re: let NM know about custom connection through dbus?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> either.  There's a lot more to the NM D-Bus API than just the device
> itself and whether that device is connected or not.

True.  However in some cases that's all that's important.  For
example if you want to run a VPN over your non-NM-aware device,
you need to tell NM that the network is up so it can enable VPN
support.

Being able to tell NM "hey, there's a network here -- enable VPN"
is definitely a worthwhile feature to have, and IMHO less work
than "you need to make NM aware of your custom network hardware
so it can manage that hardware".

> Dan

-derek

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