On 10 July 2012 17:01, Marc Deslauriers <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, why are we running it every 5 minutes? Wouldn't it make more > sense to run it every 5 minutes only if we don't have a connection, and > only turn it on following certain events, such as a new network > interface coming up, or when the user logs in?
Because captive portals are not to be trusted. I believe most of them time out after an hour or a day or some other arbitrary length of time. Just because you can access the web now doesn't mean you will be able to 10 minutes from now. Jeremy -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
