On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 10:44 -0500, Alex Ferm wrote: > I don't think there is a built-in fail-over mechanism, but you should > be > able to write a dispatcher script to handle it. > https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/1.6/NetworkManager.html
Yeah, that was the general idea. There are unfortunately a lot of ways to say "this connection has failed" (IP packet loss? physical link error rate? link speed degredation? latency spikes?) and encoding them all into NetworkManager isn't a flexible solution. So that gets punted to dispatcher scripts if you need more detailed metrics to make the decision of "this connection has failed". Also important to distinguish between fail-over on the same device, or fail-over between devices. NM has some support for both, including priorities for the default route across all devices, and for connections for a given device. I'd think many scenarios could be handled through dispatcher scripts. That all said, if there's something missing to help support dispatcher script-based failover, or there is something that so many people use that it might as well be included in NM, please let us know! Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
