Re: Default-Routing problems

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 16:00 +0000, Colin Coombs wrote:
> Following up to my previous post:
> 
> Here is an idea for an small enhancement to NetworkManager which would
> solve my particular problem, and perhaps be generally useful for other
> users with 'non-standard' use cases.
> 
> 1. Define a new flag 'Local only' for each network connection. By
> default, this flag is unset and does not affect the existing behaviour
> of NetworkManager.

This flag already exists in NM 0.7.1 as described in the reply I just
sent to your earlier mail.  Let me know if that does what you want it
to!  It also works for VPNs :)

Dan


> 2. when NetworkManager is choosing which connection to use for the
> default route, any connection with the 'Local only' flag set will not be
> chosen.
> 
> A connection with this flag set can still be started automatically and
> it will have a routing table entry for its particular IP subnetwork as
> usual.
> 
> This flag should be set for any network connection that you are only
> using to access local resources (e.g. printers and file shares). 
> 
> I know of cases where wired-Ethernet and WiFi connections are used in
> this manner. I don't know if this flag would be sensible on GSM or CDMA
> connections (but I suspect not).
> 
> By the way, I notice that Windows Vista detects whether a given WiFi
> connection has internet access or not. I don't know how they detect
> that, but I am not proposing the NetworkManager tries to do it -- a
> manual setting is all I am asking for.
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> 
> 
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