On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26:08PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Too much context got snipped out, apparently. The question here
is: what
> is the advantage of having NetworkManager handle *static* addresses?
Even with static addresses you can have your connectivity dropped for
various reasons. And having one way of finding out "is the network up"
makes it so that we can actually *depend* on that in other places
throughout the OS
But "is the network up" a generally useful question? I find that "can I
reach the network resource I need" is the more important one, and the "is
the network up" issue basically a detail. I mean, who cares if the network
is up if the gateway is down? This is why external monitoring (big brother
or the like) is more practical.
As I said earlier, I can see this as having some minor use, but I'm gonna
have some serious trouble making it alone be the selling point.
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