<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 21/06/2013, at 10:31 PM, Chris Adams wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>Current network information is available from the kernel and doesn't<br>require "guessing". Why would you code something to talk to some random<br>daemon API (that may change) when you could talk directly to the source<br>via the kernel netlink API?<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The classic here being applications which look for NM messages to indicate that networking connectivity is available rather than waiting on the presence of non-directly connected routes in the routing table.</div><br><div>-glen</div></body></html>