Package: network-manager Version: 0.6.4-6 Severity: wishlist Hi,
At one site I often work, we have the wired ethernet and the wireless network sharing the same IP space (i.e. no routing done.) Now to allow seamless roaming, it would be nice to be able to tell network-manager to just keep the IP address when going to wired to wireless and back, so any connected services would retain the connection. Obviously, this would fall into the category "expert configuration" - I'd need to manually set up groups of wired and wireless networks. I'm also unsure about how to play nicely with the DHCP server: perhaps just change the MAC on the new interface to be the same as that of the old one? Or perhaps just keep the IP a bit longer than the lease, then try to see if we can get it from the dhcp server? Or forge a DHCPRELEASE with the old MAC as sender, then try to get that IP for the new interface? Not sure if that would even work, it's just a wacky idea... cheers -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro
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