Colin, I like this idea. It definitely would be helpful for ethernet and wifi devices where the user only wants to connect to the lan and not have a default route set. It may have relevance to a GSM or CDMA connection(PPP connections in general) if the user is only using that connection to run a vpn over, but I am not sure.
With that being said it is not really my decision to make and the more people who show interest in a feature such as this the better chance for it to be implemented. I personally have wanted a feature such as this and priority of interfaces for about two years, but I can not complain because NM has continued to improve for the better and this may still be an edge case for user needs. I do feel this feature will continue to become more and more relevant in the future. -- John On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Colin Coombs <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
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