On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:46 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 16:35 +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > > > > deal with in these cases) than "some packets were lost". An option to > > > "persist connections despite something probably not actually existing" > > > would be nice for situations like this. > > > > Or, more simply, just a short time-out on cable disconnect (say 10 > > seconds) before treating the connection as down? > > NM has had one for a while: 4 seconds. THe problem with longer is that > then any time you do disconnect the cable or undock your laptop, NM > would think that you were still connected for 10 seconds (or more) until > if flipped over to wifi. So there's a conflict here between people that > occasionally pull out the network cable to do stuff, and between people > that dock/undock and move from wired to wifi. That's a point. How about no timeout when there's an alternative connection available, timeout when there isn't? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
