-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joel Newkirk wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:58:48 +0100, "Marco Trevisan (Treviño)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Alastair Johnson wrote: >>> Or you could follow >>> Joel Newkirk's simple lightweight configuration described at >>> http://jthinks.com/better-freerunner-networking >> About this... Have you tried it? >> Does it fix the most common network issues? >> >> Thanks... > > It's more of an 'anti-network-manager' - it's strictly intended as sane > defaults that let networking run more smoothly when various interfaces come > and go. GPRS configuration/activation/deactivation is outside its scope, > same for WiFi. It utilizes resolvconf, and supports local DNS caching if > desired. It consists of a few alterations and additions to ppp, udhcpc, > resolvconf, udev and general network config. Manual network config needs > to work with resolvconf and observe appropriate route metrics, nothing > more. (wifi 20, USB 30, GPRS 40) > > What it's intended to do: > > Prioritize default routes and DNS so that traffic will always use WiFi if > it's available, USBnet if there's no wifi but we're tethered, and gprs if > there's no usb. Doesn't matter if more than one interface is up, they > don't change each other's DNS or gateway settings or anything. (It also > should deal with usb-attached ethernet or wifi, prioritized between onboard > wifi and usb, but it knows nothing of VPN or Bluetooth - enfolding > Bluetooth and 3G/other usb-based devices is pretty simple, VPN potentially > less so) > > > Frameworkd already offers gprs up/down support, wifi is on the schedule. > Once network status/control is more solid under frameworkd I suspect a > network manager may be rather straightforward to code. Edje GUI with a > fairly thin middle layer talking to dbus. Until then, I've installed my > netfix-j2.tar.gz fixes (plus resolvconf when not preinstalled - the tarball > includes missing files from resolvconf) on 2008.x, FSO, Raster, and SHR, > set up a desktop icon on each to toggle GPRS, another to toggle wifi > (ifup/ifdown in a simple script, with my prewritten wpa_supplicant.conf > that talks to my home WPA, work WPA, jobsites, and open public wifi in that > priority) and it 'just works'. > > My opinion is that the only network manager-ish features we actually need > on the FreeRunner are status information, configuration and toggling of > GPRS and VPNs, and as full-featured wifi detecting/tracking/remembering as > we can get. (I want to be able to query a list of previously-seen usable > wifi within 1/4 mile, for instance) I tend to think purpose-built instead > of off-the-shelf for this. > > j
Been thinking about this subject recently as I started messing with GPRS connections on FSO. Network management on the FR is one thing, but adding a connected device is a mental mess, (for me anyhow). If I'm connected, via a USB cable, to an eeePC then sometimes I want the eeePC to be my router and forward from the FR to the world via its Network connection and sometimes I want to use the FR as a Router and forward traffic from the eeePC. Have to reconfigure both devices when you switch between the two modes of opperation. Not sure how you'd automate this without creating a security issue. I shall for the time being minimise my messing ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJKtGKXlbjSJ5n4BARAiXsAKCyw2eVJn2n3GHwTk3viHgS9NGILgCeNdFz H4RYCO1YPAG2yUbuKld3zJQ= =gxmN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community