Hi Alex, > There is already something rudimentary (and which I don't really > understand), and that is that 'avahi' daemon (we talked about that some > time ago). Don't know how far it goes, but it looks like it runs before > any user is logged in. avahi is a system for finding out what services are available on a network after you are connected, such as other computers, printers, etc. It goes to work *after* the network connection has been made.
ONR (optimized network router) will determine which physical network(s) are available and connect to the "best" one. I propose using the OpenDNS servers permanently, one could also use "bind" to optimize DNS lookups. Thus, the only dynamic part will be changing default routes. And I don't expect it to be real dynamic, thus, a changed route would cause lost connections. There was once an idea to use a loopback connection so that endpoint addresses don't change, but that is rather complicated and probably not worth the effort. If one were using a VPN with fixed addresses over the dynamic route, that would more or less come for free - but that's all overkill. I just want my networking to start early and not have to wait for it *after* I log in. Cheers! - Rand -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
