Captive portal detection on wired connections - bug or feature?

Alexander Ploumistos alex.ploumistos at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 15:47:49 UTC 2015


On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh at redhat.com>
wrote:
>
> No, it still makes sense for wired networks. Have you ever used an
> ethernet wall-jack at a hotel? It generally goes through a captive portal,
> just like wireless.
>

Yes, I realized that later on and I discovered the messages pertaining to
the implementation. I can't figure out though why it happened yesterday and
not e.g. if I disconnect my ADSL router from my LAN. Perhaps a check box in
NM that disables monitoring if the user chooses to do so is in order.
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