Following up to my previous post: Here is an idea for an small enhancement to NetworkManager which would solve my particular problem, and perhaps be generally useful for other users with 'non-standard' use cases.
1. Define a new flag 'Local only' for each network connection. By default, this flag is unset and does not affect the existing behaviour of NetworkManager. 2. when NetworkManager is choosing which connection to use for the default route, any connection with the 'Local only' flag set will not be chosen. A connection with this flag set can still be started automatically and it will have a routing table entry for its particular IP subnetwork as usual. This flag should be set for any network connection that you are only using to access local resources (e.g. printers and file shares). I know of cases where wired-Ethernet and WiFi connections are used in this manner. I don't know if this flag would be sensible on GSM or CDMA connections (but I suspect not). By the way, I notice that Windows Vista detects whether a given WiFi connection has internet access or not. I don't know how they detect that, but I am not proposing the NetworkManager tries to do it -- a manual setting is all I am asking for. Any comments? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
