Stupied network - Why can't it be friendly?

[Dan Williams]

Or, you could use NetworkManager.  Which has a chunk of UI integration
in the form of a wireless applet in your notification area on either the
GNOME or KDE panel, and allows network device control (and access point
switching) from that applet.  Packages are in rawhide, but I don't
recommend using them today.  We're going to make a much-improved release
probably tomorrow, and then updated packages will go into rawhide.

NetworkManager is the combination of a system daemon and a user-side
daemon to automatically manage your network devices, attempting to keep
a network connection up and running.  If you're at your desk with a
cable plugged in, and unplug that cable, NM will attempt to connect to a
wireless network you've selected previously, and when you plug back in
(after the meeting, or after the park, whatever) it will switch back to
the wired connection.

Its basically netplugd/ifplugd/waproamd with a nice user-interface and a
dbus API so people can write cool applications that know about and alter
the network's state.

Dan

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:56 -0700, Steve G wrote:
> >Then when I attach the cable I want it to startup the network without 
> >me suing to root and running "service network restart"?
> 
> Actually, you can do something different to get the same effect. You can set the
> network interfaces not be started on boot. Then use the netplugd program to start
> the interfaces when the cable is plugged in and stop them when its pulled out.
> You need to do a little configuring, but it should automagically start and stop
> interfaces for you.
> 
> -Steve Grubb
> 
> 
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