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On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells |
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> >>> a broweser or mail app that they are offline? |
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> >> |
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> >> use the filesystem ? |
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> >> |
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> >> guess what: I've got a filesystem (a tiny 9p server) which even |
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> >> lets me control the network interfaces. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> cu |
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> > |
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> > great for you. And how portable is your little solution? |
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> On the front side, very portable *and* network agnostic. You can |
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> reach the server from practically anywhere (assuming fw allows it) |
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> as long as you can access 9P fileservers (in theory it should also |
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> be re-exportable through other network filesystems, even i didn |
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> try it yet ;-o). |
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> The backend side (the actual interface controll stuff) yet is |
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> linux-specific, but it can be easily adapted to other platforms. |
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don't waste your time - dbis is already there... |
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