DHCPv6 *still* broken for F17 alpha

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Mar 19 09:17:47 UTC 2012


Le Sam 17 mars 2012 00:51, Glen Turner a écrit :
> On 2012-03-15 Dan Williams wrote:
>> The only effect this checking will have is to change NetworkManager's
>> state from CONNECTED_GLOBAL to CONNECTED_SITE or CONNECTED_LOCAL.  It
>> doesn't do anything odd like disconnect and retry some other
> connection,
>> which wouldn't make much sense.  It just changes some state which apps
>> can use to figure out whether they'd connect to say your IRC server or
>> your email or whatever automatically.

> I suggest that is something the application should determine, not
> NetworkManager.

BTW, the proposed solution does not even work for http/s properly, let alone
for other protocols

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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