[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#845300: Bug#845300: /usr/bin/nm-online: nm-online gives wrong status

[Michael Biebl]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:35:00 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org> wrote:

> rrs at learner:~$ nmcli networking connectivity check
> full
> 2016-11-22 / 18:33:21 ♒♒♒  ☺  
> 
> The manpage claims the following:
> 
>        connectivity [check]
>            Get network connectivity state. The optional check argument tells NetworkManager
>            to re-check the connectivity, else the most recent known connectivity state is
>            displayed without re-checking.
> 
>            Possible states are:
> 
>            none
>                the host is not connected to any network.
> 
>            portal
>                the host is behind a captive portal and cannot reach the full Internet.
> 
>            limited
>                the host is connected to a network, but it has no access to the Internet.
> 
>            full
>                the host is connected to a network and has full access to the Internet.
> 
>            unknown
>                the connectivity status cannot be found out.

The connectivity check needs to be setup explicitly. It's not enabled by
default. See https://bugs.debian.org/729783

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