On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 04:09:06PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> that's cool - though maybe it would make sense to have a general "network"
> config tool that handles modem+ppp, ethernet+pppoe, wireless lan, normal lan
> (dhcp, static ip etc.)... ? basically there comes a time when all network
> connections somehow have to know about eachother and interact. this does mean
> digging into lower level system configs and management of these, BUT, you want
> to be able to:
>
> 1. use wired lan UNLESS its unplugged - then use wireless LAN
> 2. if these don't work, and a phone line is attached, dial in
> 3. maybe have multiple connections up at once but route different.
> 4. modify the above preference list.
> etc.
All that needs to be done is implement a front end to Gnome's
NetworkManager daemon and we'll get all of this for free plus VPN. I've
poked around with idea a few weekends, but unfortunately, there's no
documentation on how a client application interacts with the daemon,
only Gnome's nm-applet source code, so I don't really have anything to
show.
Ross
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