I would like to remind that NetworkManager's workflow is a configuration workflow. So if any statistics checking should be implemented, I suggest a separate daemon with a separate D-Bus API be spawned from NetworkManager or separately.
Pavel ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dan pridgeon" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2013 4:26:46 PM > Subject: [Additional] Fw: Possible GSOC project ideas > > > How hard would it be to monitor all traffic on all channels and > present a real time graph of the relative amount of traffic on each > channel? Perhaps a diagnostic feature. Is there a single point in > the code that has visibility to all traffic? Just thinking. And > learning. Thanks. > > Have a Blessed day. > Dan > > “These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the > sunshine > patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their > country; > but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and > woman.” ~Thomas Paine | 1776 > "The cure for 1984 is the Spirit of 1776." > > You might consider Gary Johnson's record as New Mexico's Governor: > http://www.garyjohnson2012.com/issues > > --- On Sun, 2/24/13, todd rme <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > From: todd rme <[email protected]> > Subject: Possible GSOC project ideas > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 5:16 AM > > > Will you be applying to participate in GSOC this year? If so, I have > some ideas about possible projects someone in the group may want to > mentor (I am not applying, there are just ideas you may want to > suggest to potential applicants). Even if not, these might be items > for the TODO list: > > 1. Implement one item on the TODO list. I was going to propose > implement WPS, but I see this is already on the todo list. > > 2. Implement wifi-direct/p2p. This allows two wireless devices to > connect directly to each other, securely sending files without going > over a WIFI network. Android now supports this, and the iPhone has > some implementation although it is compatible with normal ones. > Further, it is a prerequisite for the new miracast standard, which > allows wireless streaming of videos between supported devices. > Android now supports it for sending video, and it looks like TVs will > start implementing it for receiving video in the near future. People > have been working on this in wpa_supplicant, but I don't know its > status so this project may require some hacking there too. > > 3. Implement auto-detection of connection status. This would be a > check that is carried out after connecting to a wired or wireless > network. It would check whether you are actually able to browse the > internet. The most likely approach would be to have website hosted on > one or more free-software servers that would contain a particular > code > in its HTML, and networkmanager would check for that code. If it gets > an error, it would send a signal of some sort to the front-end that > it > cannot connect. If it is instead returned a different web page, it > will assume you are at an airport, hotel, or other such public space > that requires that you do something on a web page before it will let > you connect, and it will signal the front-end of this so the > front-end > can open a browser or display the page in some other way. Front-ends > should also be able to signal the backend to re-check the status, and > it should probably automatically re-check at some interval. I know > windows 7 has a built-in connectivity test, and android has the > ability to automatically check whether one of these login sites is in > the way. > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
