netcfg3
netcfg2 has been out for long enough, and i’m looking towards netcfg3.
In netcfg3 I hope to fix all that things about netcfg2 that I think _suck_.
* Move from iwconfig -> wpa_supplicant
* Access wpa_supplicant via dbus rather than crappy autogen configs
* Replace all scanning and ‘detection’ code
* Move from ifconfig/route -> iproute
* Gut existing attempts at ‘automagic’ - they all suck.
* Distro independent
* Route handling
* Not break current profile config syntax (no promises)
* More detailed status output
As for feature additions:
* A better auto connection system, packaged separately
* Possibly a daemon of some sort to monitor connection state and act upon changes
* Closing of existing feature requests on Arch bug tracker
Small goals, but should make a significant difference. The implementation will be cleaner and more flexible.
hmm, are you rewriting NetworkManager??
“* Possibly a daemon of some sort to monitor connection state and act upon changes”
This would be awesome. There really needs to be a console NetworkManager. You might want to look into wifiroamd, which is an attempt at just that.
Looking forward to this sooner rather than later
Nice
But could you add suport for wvdial and ppp connections?
“daemon to monitor connection state”?
you mean, like ifplugd?
also, I hope you will be keeping the unix philosophy of ‘one good tool for one precise task’ and not create some kitchensink. I really like how netcfg2 is barebones.
I’m not sure if this is something you want to implement or not, but I would like to see that you could execute certain commands for certain profiles. Like:
Connection A:
Mount a sshfs drive, mount a nfs drive, bring up a daemon …
Connection B:
Copy a file, sync a calendar …
If there’s a smarter way of doing this, it would be nice to find out …