On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >>> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells > >>> a broweser or mail app that they are offline? > >> > >> use the filesystem ? > >> > >> guess what: I've got a filesystem (a tiny 9p server) which even > >> lets me control the network interfaces. > >> > >> > >> cu > > > > great for you. And how portable is your little solution? > > On the front side, very portable *and* network agnostic. You can > reach the server from practically anywhere (assuming fw allows it) > as long as you can access 9P fileservers (in theory it should also > be re-exportable through other network filesystems, even i didn > try it yet ;-o). > > The backend side (the actual interface controll stuff) yet is > linux-specific, but it can be easily adapted to other platforms.
don't waste your time - dbis is already there...
