Re: pessimistic NetworkManager and off-line mode

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

Alexander Sack a écrit :
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 05:25:27PM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> This is kind of what we hacked in ubuntu to get rid of nasty offline
> behaviour.
> 
> However, the ubuntu hack is hacky and could be improved in various
> way;


> anyway, this was discussed before

Pointers?

> and from what i understand Dan
> does not want NM to guess online if a connection is not managed by
> NetworkManager.

How can NM "forget" that it is managing a connection?

Cheers,

Marc