On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:40:23PM -0300, Martin Abente wrote: > Researching on the web, I found this [1]. Basically autoip was causing > confusion when making the users to believe that the ethernet > connection was _always_ successful.
Caused by conflating two concepts; network interface configured, vs user perception of a useful network. > http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg04835.html I disagree with Jerone. The connection is not useless, it is ready. Once another node joins the network, it will be accessible. However, I don't think the connection state should be given to the user as a claim that they have a useful network that will carry their packets to the internet. That's a fundamental design issue. It can be made to work in our case, just by assigning an IP automatically, since Sugar can operate well on a network that does not carry packets to the internet. p.s. modern consumer DSL and wireless routers in Australia deal with this issue by adding an indicator; one LED indicates connected to provider, another LED indicates success of ping to one of a set of predefined test IPs on the internet. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel