On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 06:08 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre [2012-07-10 14:41 -0400]: > > I'd like to enable connectivity checking in NetworkManager. We'd use > > http://start.ubuntu.com/connectivity-check.html, running the check > > every 5 minutes starting from the connection being established. > > start.ubuntu.com has already been in use for a while to verify > > connectivity from the installer, IIRC. > > That seems rather overzealous to me. Why does it need to re-check so > often, even after it knows that it is connected to the "real" world > out there?
because the connection can die. e.g. you use you smartphone as wlan hotspot and the internet connection of the smartphone dies. > It could stop polling until the connection state changes > then. if you don't poll, you never know if the connection state changed. > Several million users pinging the same site every 5 minutes has > both privacy issues as well as significantly increasing the traffic to > start.u.c. as well. maybe we should increase the period when a connection is available (20 minutes?) and decrease the period (10 seconds?) when the connection is unavailable. > At the same time, 5 minutes is much too long when you use it for some > desktop application. After registering in the portal etc. you do not > want to twiddle your thumbs for 5 minutes until your application is > finally convinced that it can go on using the interweb now. > > It seems to me that this check would be more appropriate as a D-BUS > method. It sure needs to be handled async by the application and can > take a few seconds, but it avoids the 5 minute delay, the constant > hammering as well as the user count issues? imho we need both - a dbus method and the possibility for a periodic check. Cheers, Tom -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
