On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/03/2011 01:19 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> The Ubuntu NM maintainer has posted a WIP patch that makes NM say it's >> connected immediately if at least one of IPv4 or IPv6 completes. >> Currently if both are enabled, NM won't say it's connected until both >> are done (and result in either success or failure). That at least >> speeds up the perceived connection speed, which isn't a bad thing. > > Nice, that will help almost everybody, but possibly it could break > somebody who's depending explicitly on IPv6 (or IPv4 in the other case) > for an app and now thinks the network is up. > > How do apps, e.g. Thunderbird, know when they're online? dbus, /sys? > > If this change happens, there ought to be a way for that small slice of > apps to check to see that the stack they demand is really up, if they're > depending on it (more directly than parsing text output of userland > tools). Probably this already exists, right? It seems like NM's state transitions need to become more explicit. 1. IPv4 connected 2. IPv6 connected 3. "internet" connected (including proxy discovery) Nathaniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
