4 Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
7 Functionality and features
8 ==========================
10 The following features are built-in into Connection Manager:
11 - Generic plugin infrastructure
12 - Device and network abstraction (with basic storage support)
13 - IPv4, routing and DNS configuration
15 Various plugins can be enabled for networking support:
17 - WiFi plugin with WEP40/WEP128 and WPA/WPA2 (personal only) support
20 Also plugins with additional features are available:
21 - Resolver plugin (DNS proxy)
26 Compilation and installation
27 ============================
29 In order to compile Connection Manager you need following software packages:
33 - PolicyKit (optional)
36 ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
38 Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.
40 To compile and install run:
44 Configuration and options
45 =========================
47 For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled:
51 Enable support for Ethernet network cards
55 Enable support for WiFi devices (requires wpa_supplicant)
60 Enable support for Bluetooth devices (requires BlueZ)
64 Enable DNS proxy support for /etc/resolv.conf abstraction
66 The best solution for multiple connections and proper DNS
67 handling is a DNS proxy server. This binds a DNS proxy
68 server to port 53 on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1).
70 The /etc/resolv.conf file needs a "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
71 entry, but can now set the immutable bit or be on a read-only
72 filesystem. No further modification to that file will be made.
74 It is important that this is not used together with other
75 DNS proxy solution like dnsmasq.
79 Enable setup of loopback device
81 For distributions with a really minimal init system and no
82 networking scripts this can take care of setting up the
83 loopback device and enabling it.
85 It is safe to select this option even if networking scripts
86 are in place. It detects an already configured loopback
87 device and leaves it as it is.
91 Enable support for PolicyKit authorization
93 This allows to check every D-Bus access against a security
94 policy and so restrict access to certain functionality.