Connection Manager
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-Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Functionality and features
- Bluetooth plugin
Also plugins with additional features are available:
- - DHCP plugins (uDHCP and dhclient)
- - Resolver plugins (resolvconf and DNS proxy)
+ - DHCP plugin (dhclient)
+ - Resolver plugin (DNS proxy)
- Loopback setup
- PolicyKit support
- GCC compiler
- GLib library
- D-Bus library
- - udev library (optional)
- PolicyKit (optional)
- - PPP support (optional)
To configure run:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
Enable support for Bluetooth devices (requires BlueZ)
- --enable-ppp
-
- Enable PPP support for dialup connections (requires pppd)
-
- The location of the pppd binary is auto-detected, but it
- can be overwritten via --with-pppd=<path-to-binary>.
-
- --enable-udhcp
-
- Enable DHCP client support for BusyBox based systems
-
- The location of the udhcpc binary is auto-detected, but it
- can be overwritten via --with-udhcpc=<path-to-binary>.
-
--enable-dhclient
Enable DHCP client support for ISC dhclient based systems
It is important that this is not used together with other
DNS proxy solution like dnsmasq.
- --enable-resolvconf
-
- Enable resolvconf support for Debian/Ubuntu based systems
-
- The resolvconf package from Debian can be used to handle
- configuration of the /etc/resolv.conf file.
-
- It is safe to select this option even when resolvconf is not
- installed. A missing resolvconf will be detected and in that
- case it falls back to modifying /etc/resolv.conf directly.
-
- The location of the resolvconf binary is auto-detected, but it
- can be overwritten via --with-resolvconf=<path-to-binary>.
-
--enable-loopback
Enable setup of loopback device
are in place. It detects an already configured loopback
device and leaves it as it is.
- --enable-udev
-
- Enable device detection support via udev
-
- Network devices are by default detected via the builtin RTNL
- functionality. This allows to detect TTY based modem devices
- via udev.
-
--enable-polkit
Enable support for PolicyKit authorization