NetworkManager - similar hassle , anyone ?

[Tim]

On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 01:51 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Seems like a weird assumption for programs to make. Having a wifi link
> doesn't imply internet access either. Maybe there should be a seperate
> daemon which keeps track of the level of connectivity, eg. ping
> google.com to verify connectivity to the internet. 

Yes, it doesn't seem a sane presumption.  But I don't see the need to
ping Google.  If your IM client can't connect to its server, it's
probably offline.  Contrariwise, if your mail client can connect to its
mail server, then that's all it needs to know.  It doesn't matter
whether internet access is there, as well.  It just needs access to what
it needs to use (e.g. your mailserver could be local).

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