On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 12:57 +0000, Marc Herbert wrote: > Dominik George a écrit : > > > > If NM replaces traditional networking in RC, then what I would expect > > that it will get networking up on start and down on stop. That's exactly > > what you describe NM to be doing ;). > > > > Or am I misunderstanding something? > > In 0.7.1, yes. But according to Dan, not any more in 0.8.X.
That's correct, at least for some wired devices with a system connection. It's to ensure that restarting NM as part of a security update or whatever does not interrupt network connectivity server-type boxes. It's complicated. Previous mechanisms didn't have a daemon running in the background actively managing the network. So there was nothing to restart. Unfortunately using Unix signals there's no way to really express "terminate but don't take stuff down". We could however use a D-Bus call to do so, or something like that and keep -TERM as taking interfaces down. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
