Jeff Pitman wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:50, John Thacker wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:02:24AM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
>
>>Crazy idea: shut off all the daemons that need network (from normal
>>init processing) and then only spawn them when appropriate from
>>NetworkManager.
>
>Definitely crazy until NetworkManager can actually handle all
>connections. For example, right now it can't handle any machine with
>multiple active connections, which includes machines that do
>connection sharing. (Among other things, it doesn't believe that you
>would have a static IP with no default gateway.)
And, it needs to handle virtuals: OpenVPN, VmWare, vpnc, etc. etc.
Definetly a job for DBUS messaging... How about a general stub for
(re-)starting all kinds of daemons, which listens on DBUS for a specific
signal/message? NetworkManager and /etc/init.d/network could provide this
message, after the network is up.