On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 20:44 +0000, Guillaume Hetier wrote: > Hi, > > > Are there any specific applications you're thinking of? > > Our main targets are programs setting up IOT devices: we want to give > the guest the capacity to connect to specific networks created by the > IOT device for the duration of their setup. > For that, we want to be able to scan, connect and reflect network > properties precisely enough to let the guest programs go forward with > the setup. Makes sense. But are there such tools on Linux today? And if so, how do they work? I certainly haven't seen one on a general purpose Linux, obviously Android is a different matter (and if you wanted to support Android you could have a special network manager that mostly defers to the host) > We would like to make our solution as generic as possible to be > extendable and potentially support for complex use cases if possible, > but we are not aiming for generic network management from the guest. :) johannes
