On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 00:31 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > It would be very nice to know if Internet is reachable or not. > It could be done by pinging a server or a server from a list. > (of course there is a risk of dos attack, running up the bill, etc)
Exactly; thus this option *cannot* be the default until either there is infrastructure to handle it, some some better mechanism. > But, today, at least ubuntu _always_ uses ntpdate to update the time, > each time I connect to the Internet. can't you integrate this into NM? Perhaps, that could be one additional source of connection information. It might make sense to try a few in parallel. > Probably time is updated only once at connection, but still this at > least will show if connection is active. > > Plus, you could add an 'optional' setting to ping a user specified > server at, user specified interval. (disabled by default) Yes, that's a patch I'd review; somebody mentioned HTTP pings too. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
