-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 11:52 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: >>> This would be problematic at best, how would NM know the difference? >>> The Captive portals work by intercepting all the traffic and in theory >>> work transparently. I am actually setting up one using the Captive >>> Portal on Aruba and also testing one Consentry switch right now and I >>> couldn't think of an easy way to allow NM to reliably determine if it >>> had authenticated to the Captive portal or not. What about networks >>> that require the use of a Proxy? In those cases the yellow >>> connection notification would be incorrect. >> There are ways of doing it so it's an additive notification, just >> because a method can not be found at the moment does not mean that the >> idea it's self is problematic, there is a need to have a greater >> status of connectivity. But think about this from the users >> perspective, KISS! Having any sort of information about the state of >> the network hidden away until you open up firefox and try out a >> website isn't good. > -- CUT -- > The big question I have is "What does Vista do?" Vista has a feature > where it _does_ show a little globe over the device icon in the system > tray when it has determined that you are connected to the Internet, and > not just your local network. That said, it's pretty flaky and drops out > quite a bit.
XP does this too, and warns about when an internet connection is marginal. I'd be really interested to know how it knows (it's typically correct!). - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH+ovrmb+gadEcsb4RAm+eAJsEuNjDVQWImXUv2WDrYst2NzgsdQCgpeYL nP81eeEFOaEqzoCrESt7fjE= =AuVy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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