[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#491826: Bug#491826: Upstream bug report

[Michael Biebl]

Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There is already an upstream bug report for this:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418745
> 
> Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in fixing false network online 
> status reports or even deleting default routes in that case. NM didn't do 
> the later here yet tough.

I agree, that this situation is less than ideal (and thanks for the nice
writeup). With 0.7 the situation will be better, as NM can handle more different
use case (static ip etc.), but the underlying problem still exists.

A short term fix could be, to assume the network status to be "online" for
unmanaged devices, rather than offline. This way apps wouldn't go into offline
mode. What you will get though eventually, is unsuccessful network connection
attempts (but that wouldn't be a regression with regard to old ifupdown).

Ubuntu ships a patch for exactly that, and I could pull it from there


Cheers,
Michael
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