wireless-tools/net-tools are DEPRECATED

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:48 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:46 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 16:35 +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > 
> > > deal with in these cases) than "some packets were lost". An option to
> > > "persist connections despite something probably not actually existing"
> > > would be nice for situations like this.
> > 
> > Or, more simply, just a short time-out on cable disconnect (say 10
> > seconds) before treating the connection as down?
> 
> NM has had one for a while: 4 seconds.  THe problem with longer is that
> then any time you do disconnect the cable or undock your laptop, NM
> would think that you were still connected for 10 seconds (or more) until
> if flipped over to wifi.  So there's a conflict here between people that
> occasionally pull out the network cable to do stuff, and between people
> that dock/undock and move from wired to wifi.

That's a point. How about no timeout when there's an alternative
connection available, timeout when there isn't?
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