Package: network-manager Version: 0.9.8.0-5 Severity: wishlist Dear Network Manager maintainers,
I've recently asked our DSA team to create a new network-test.debian.org service (See [rt.debian.org #4756) to be able to script tests of network connectivity with a stable service. Originally I intended this service to improve the 'network-test' script in the ifupdown-extra package, however, in light of the new Network-Manager capability to check connectivity status, I think it can be useful for network-manager users too. The service is now running and it is a static Virtual Host distributed along several Debian-managed machines with IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity. Specifically for Network-Manager, based on NetworkManager.conf(5), I've setup a URL for network connectivity tests which is now alive and running as you can see here: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ echo -e "GET /nm HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: network-test.debian.org\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n" | nc network-test.debian.org 80 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:52:46 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 16:28:43 GMT ETag: "1019d211-19-4eb4dcee584c0" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 25 X-NetworkManager-Status: online Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain NetworkManager is online -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would appreciate if you would consider: a) testing this service and see if it suits Network-Manager's requirements b) changin Network-Manager in order to add the following when creating a new managed connection: ------------------------------------------ [connectivity] uri=http://network-test.debian.org/nm ------------------------------------------ That way, when our Debian users setup a network connection they can test that it has full end-to-end connectivity and will be able to detect the following situations: - systems connected to cable connections which receive an DHCP assignment but are not fully connected to the Internet - as is the case with corporate connections which have network firewalls in place which require the use of network proxies for Internet access - systems connected to hotspots using WiFi which can connect and get a DHCP assignment but are forced to go through a captive portal before Internet access is granted (common use case for public/hotel WiFi hotspots) Please let me know if you need help in implementing the above changes. I'm not familiar enough with Network-Managers' codebase to produce a patch, but could try to work on it if assistance is needed. Best regards Javier -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii dbus 1.6.14-1 ii dpkg 1.17.1 ii isc-dhcp-client 4.2.4-7 ii libc6 2.17-93 ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.14-1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100.2-1 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.3-2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.36.4-1 ii libgnutls26 2.12.23-7 ii libgudev-1.0-0 204-5 ii libnl-3-200 3.2.21-1 ii libnl-genl-3-200 3.2.21-1 ii libnl-route-3-200 3.2.21-1 ii libnm-glib4 0.9.8.0-5 ii libnm-util2 0.9.8.0-5 ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-3 ii libuuid1 2.20.1-5.5 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian12 ii udev 204-5 ii wpasupplicant 1.0-3+b1 Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii crda 1.1.2-1 ii dnsmasq-base 2.66-4 ii iptables 1.4.20-2 ii modemmanager 0.5.2.0-2 ii policykit-1 0.105-3 ii ppp 2.4.5-5.2 Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla [Errno 13] Permiso denegado: u'/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla' -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
