netplugd, ifplugd and selinux
Marcelo Magno T. Sales
marcelo.sales at sefaz.pe.gov.br
Fri Jan 26 14:22:44 UTC 2007
Hi,
Em Quinta 25 Janeiro 2007 18:05, Albert de Jongh escreveu:
> I am running Fedora Core 6 (with latest yum updates) on my laptop
> (ThinkPad T42). I primarily use the wireless card to get onto our
> network at work. This frequently means that I memory suspend the
> machine before walking to a meeting etc., and then open it again. I
> have found that netplugd pooly copes with this situation, and that I
> would have to always kill dhclient, and then run it again. In
> comparison the ifplugd package (from extras) works very well, and I
> never have to worry about getting an ip address etc.
>
> My questions:
> 1. From what I could gather netplugd is not developed anymore, and
> ifplugd is the more modern version of that. Why is it not included in
> Core by default?
> 2. Ifplugd has "issues" with SELinux (I am still trying to figure out
> what to relabel), and my sealert friend moans everytime ifplugd
> detects a change - anybody has any experience with this?
Doesn't NetworkManager do what you need? I did use ifplugd for sometime, but
then noted that NetworkManager was enough for my needs.
[]'s
Marcelo
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