Re: Maintaining connection

["Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart gathman org>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Dan Williams wrote:

> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 15:57 -0500, Alex Ferm wrote:
> > Hello, I'm trying to write a python script that resets NetworkManager
> > when the state is not "NM_STATE_CONNECTED_GLOBAL". Does NetworkManager
> > time out and retry automatically during the "NM_STATE_CONNECTING" state?
> > Also, how is the "NM_STATE_CONNECTED_GLOBAL" determined(ie: is there a
> > periodic ping or something?)?
>
> What's the reason to reset NM when it reports something isn't connected?
> Just to ensure always-on connectivity as hard as possible?  Also, what
> do you mean by "reset", what specific actions are you running to do so?

In my case, wpa_supplicant hangs every so many megabytes, and I have to
killall wpa_supplicant to restore the network connection.  I've been
wondering about a way to have NM do that automatically, since fixing
wpa_supplicant seems to be difficult.