based on it and the device's state.
-* Real Access Point mode support
-
-Now that NetworkManager requires wpa_supplicant 0.7.x or later, we can add
-full Access Point (AP) mode support. NetworkManager currently implements
-connection sharing via AdHoc mode support, which has some limitations. Instead,
-we should check whether the wifi device supports AP mode, and if so, use
-that mode instead. wpa_supplicant has support for a "lightweight AP" mode which
-we should use. Witold Sowa started this support a while ago and wrote the new
-D-Bus API for wpa_supplicant that makes all this possible, but some NM pieces
-are still missing. If the wifi driver supports AP mode, then in
-src/supplicant-manager/ NM should send an AP-mode config instead of sending
-the adhoc config.
-
-Note that some devices (airo, ipw2100, ipw2200, iwl3945, iwl4965, atmel, zd1201)
-will never support AP mode due to firmware limitations, so we clearly must still
-provide Ad-Hoc connection sharing support for those devices and switch between
-Ad-Hoc and AP mode depending on device capabilities.
-
-
-* Reconnect to WiFi Networks Only If They Succeeded Once
-
-Currently, NetworkManager will attempt to connect to a previously attempted
-WiFi network even if that network was never successfully connected to. This
-causes confusion because sometimes users will randomly try various WiFi networks
-hoping to find an open AP, and then wonder why NM tries to reconnect to any of
-those APs later when none of them worked originally due to AP-side MAC filtering
-or other failures. What should happen is that NetworkManager should set a flag
-on a connection when that connection is successfully connected at least once,
-and only autoconnect the wifi network if that flag is present *and* the
-NMSettingConnection's 'autoconnect' property is TRUE.
-
-This is a bit tricky because we want to consider all connections that don't have
-this flag as having succeeded so that we don't break users' existing connections,
-while holding all newly created connections to this policy. This flag should
-be determined and set for all connections, even if we only use it to determine
-WiFi behavior for now.
-
-This flag should be a new gboolean property on the NMSettingConnection object
-called "connect-success", with a default value of TRUE. It should default to
-TRUE to ensure that existing connections are assumed to have connected
-successfully in the past. New connections created via the AddConnection and
-AddAndActivateConnection D-Bus method calls should have the 'connect-success'
-property explicitly set to FALSE. Then, in nm-device.c's device_state_changed()
-function where the NM_DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVATED state is handled, the
-'connect-success' property should be set to TRUE.
-
-For WiFi then, in nm-device-wifi.c's get_best_auto_connection() method, the
-'connect-success' property should be checked and if it is FALSE, the connection
-is not considered for auto-activation.
-
-
* Implement NM_DEVICE_STATE_DISCONNECTING
To allow for "pre-down" scenarios, this state should be implemented before a
connected before the drop.
-* VPN autoconnect (bgo #560471)
-
-We should add a property to the NMSettingConnection object in
-libnm-util/nm-setting-connection.c called "vpns" that is a string list,
-containing a list of Connection UUIDs that should be activated when the base
-connection itself is activated. This will allow a VPN connection to be
-started every time another connection is started, so that if you choose you're
-always on the VPN in your favorite coffee shop.
-
-The NM_DEVICE_STATE_SECONDARIES state was added specifically for cases like
-this. Thus, after the base device has IP connectivity, but before it has
-signaled that it's fully activated, the device should enter the SECONDARIES
-state and kick off activation of the given VPN connection. Only after this
-VPN connection has successfully connected should the base device to the
-NM_DEVICE_STATE_ACTIVATED state.
-
-
-* VPN and IPv6
-
-The internal VPN capability should support IPv6. Essentially, the D-Bus
-interface between NetworkManager and the VPN service daemons should be extended
-with an IP6Config signal that passes up the IPv6 addressing and routing details
-if the VPN daemon is IPv6 capable. NM should then process those details like it
-does with IPv4. include/NetworkManagerVPN.h should be updated with key/value
-pairs defining the various IPv6 attributes much like the IPv4 ones are defined.
-
-
* VPN IP Methods
Some VPNs (openvpn with TAP for example) require that DHCP is run on a
it tracks which network connections are active, and it already queries the
network for automatic proxy configuration via DHCP and WPAD.
+However, proxy handling is complicated and may require use of Javascript to
+parse PAC files provided by WPAD, and this is not something NetworkManager
+should do itself. Instead, that should be left to "proxy handlers", or external
+utilities like libproxy or pacrunner that take raw proxy information, parse it,
+and tell applications what proxy server to use for a specific network resource.
+NetworkManager should provide all the proxy information it can find to these
+external proxy handlers via the D-Bus interface and dispatcher scripts.
+
We should add a new NMSetting subclass called NMSettingProxy that holds
necessary proxy configuration. The properties of this setting should be a
superset of what is provided in the Firefox proxy configuration screen and the
After completing IP configuration but still during the NM_DEVICE_STATE_IP_CONFIG
activation stage, NetworkManager would merge the automatically supplied proxy
configuration (from DHCP's WPAD option) with user-provided overrides from the
-NMSettingProxy and send the results to the system. The 'default' connection's
-proxy configuration would be preferred, so we'd have to update proxy
-configuration from nm-policy.c the same time we update DNS information and the
-default route.
+NMSettingProxy export the resulting proxy configuration via D-Bus and dispatcher
+scripts. The 'default' connection's proxy configuration would be preferred, so
+we'd have to update proxy configuration from nm-policy.c the same time we update
+DNS information and the default route.
-The merged proxy configuration would then be sent to the system. There is no
-canonical proxy daemon in-use, so we should have plugins (if not separate
-shared libraries, then certainly encapsulated source files that implement a
-common glib GInterface or are subclasses of eg a parent NMProxyHandler class)
-that handle different system proxy handlers. Some of the proxy handlers are:
+Merged proxy information should be exposed in two places. First, it should be
+exported over D-Bus as a property of the org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Device
+interface. This property should be named "ProxyInfo" and should have the
+D-Bus signature "a{sv}" (eg, dictionary) and should mirror the properties from
+the NMSettingProxy object.
- libproxy: need to figure out how it gets proxy info and have NM write merged
- proxy config out to that location
- pacrunner: a D-Bus enabled daemon, NM would call D-Bus methods of the
- pacrunner service with the proxy information
- GNOME/KDE: how do these desktop environments retrieve proxy configuration?
+Second, it should be exported via the dispatcher to dispatcher scripts when
+with the "up" and "down" events.
* Better Tablet/Mobile Behavior
the best route to go for desktop use-cases as well. Instead of bringing all
available connections up, only bring up the "best" connection at any given
time based on the current priority list (which is rougly Ethernet > WiFi >
-3G/Bluetooth/WiMAX). However, to ensure seamless connectivity, when one
-connection begins to degrade, the next-best connection should be started before
-the current one is terminated, such that there is a small amount of overlap.
+3G/Bluetooth). However, to ensure seamless connectivity, when one connection
+begins to degrade, the next-best connection should be started before the
+current one is terminated, such that there is a small amount of overlap.
Consequently the same behavior should be used when a better connection becomes
available. This behavior should be suspended when special connections like
Internet Connection Sharing ones are started, where clearly the priorities
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