Request for comment: a new software to manage linux networking features

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> [2008.02.20.1908 +0100]:
> > netconf is declarative in that it determines the desired state of
> > the system, then looks at the actual system
> 
> How exactly will you do that?
> Will you use the wpasupplicant dbus interface or the control socket to
> query the state of wireless devices?
> What about ppp/vpn connections, ethernet, link detection, dhcp?
> How will you hook into those systems?

I don't know the details on each, but yes, I intend to query them
for state. This may require patches to openvpn and the like, but I'd
much rather see netconf do stuff right than hacks in places.

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