Network Status Notification Daemon
Making apps rely on NetworkManager for status information turned out to have several issues:
a) not all desktops use networkmanager
b) not all desktop that use networkmanager manage all their interfaces using networkmanager itself
Some applications even stopped implementing features based on online status as, e.g. https:/
This specification assumes that connection managers are not the right place to implement a generic network status notification daemon; instead we suggest to develop a connection manager independent network status daemon, which uses rtnetlink to gather the required information from the kernel directly.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Alexander Sack
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Alexander Sack
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Proposed for karmic
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
[asac] deferred after UDS discussion; probably superseded by ntrack - a tiny network status tracking library - developed by asac as a spare time project
