Hi, Tony Espy wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 09:50 +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> with the switch to Intrepid I finally got the long awaited NM 0.7 features >>> and >>> although it incorporates several enhancements I would really like to set it >>> back >>> to the 0.6 behaviour of 1 active (physical) device. >> Note that this behavior would prohibit Internet connection sharing and >> instant failover when you pull the cable or whatever. > > Dan -- > > To follow-up on the original question, is it possible to restore the > single active connection behavior of NM 0.6.6 w/out changing code? > > In my opinion, unless someone is actively using connection sharing, > keeping Wi-Fi connected while Ethernet is active is just burning a slot > in the AP that someone else could be utilizing... > > What about 3g? Does it also stay connected when an Ethernet cable is > plugged in? If so, couldn't that have financial implications to the > end-user?
Thank you for sharing my point of view. I'm responsible for a little office network and I never saw a use case for connection sharing in office environments. This is also one of those things I disallow for all users. In my eyes only some end users need this for their home networks in rare cases. Besides that I always hated the default windows behaviour of acquiring IP adresses on all interfaces, what means everyone gets 1 ethernet and 1 wireless address. I don't want to have this on linux. I have no problem with a short re-orientation period when switching from wlan to ethernet or the other way round. Just my 2ยข Nikolaus _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list