On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 14:35:48 -0700,
Rick Stevens <ricks(a)nerd.com> wrote:
The problem is if you have to authenticate using a network-based
mechanism (e.g. NIS/NIS+ or LDAP), then you have to use the classic
networking stuff since NM doesn't fire until you're logged in AND are
using a GUI.
Perhaps it'd be better if classic networking and NM would write a temp
file somewhere indicating that SOME network device is alive and all
tools could look at it.
I would think looking at the routing tables for a default route my be
a better way to tell that general networking is expected to work.