Re: DSL under Wireless

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:31 +0200, Graham Beneke wrote:
> Dan Williams wrote:
> > Then there's the question of what stage the PPPoE connection should run
> > at.  Each NMDevice object (of which Ethernet and Wifi are subclasses)
> > proceed from the DISCONNECTED state through a few others like IP_CONFIG
> > and such to the ACTIVATED state.  We still want to bring up the
> > underlying device's IP config, and *then* bring up the PPPoE
> > connection's IP config after that.  The internal structure of NM is such
> > that it's geared towards only one IP config at the moment, which is why
> > we currently don't try to set up the ethernet device's IP stuff, but
> > instead do PPPoE.
> 
> Surely you do not want to attempt to bring up an IP interface before 
> setting up a PPPoE connection? Most services providing PPPoE won't have 
> DHCP server responding on the same ethernet segment.
> 
> Perhaps the PPPoE config is better located on the 'IPv4 Settings' tab as 
> one of the possible 'Method's?

We've had multiple requests to allow local network access when also
using PPPoE.  Originally we thought they were mutually exclusive, but it
turns out that's apparently not the case...

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559134

Dan