On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 12:48 -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: > On 07/11/2012 12:17 PM, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 06:08 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > >> Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre [2012-07-10 14:41 -0400]: > >> It could stop polling until the connection state changes > >> then. > > > > if you don't poll, you never know if the connection state changed. > > My devious self is wondering if each computer can have an active TCP > connection to a specific address, like connected.ubuntu.com, with TCP > keepalives at a high interval (maybe 10 seconds). You don't have the > overhead of constantly opening and closing connections, but you do have > the overhead of actually keeping millions of connections open on the server. > > This addresses none of the privacy concerns, of course, but it does give > near immediate notification when the network has died, no matter how you > get your connection.
I was thinking the same thing, I'm curious if we couldn't offload that
to something like Telepathy. So for instance, I typically have a Jabber
connection open if I'm online. Seems like U1 does the same thing for
those with U1 accounts. Only poll if someone doesn't take over.
--Ted
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