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Connection Manager
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Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
Functionality and features
==========================
The following features are built-in into Connection Manager:
- Generic plugin infrastructure
- Device and network abstraction (with basic storage support)
- IPv4, routing and DNS configuration
Various plugins can be enabled for networking support:
- Ethernet plugin
- WiFi plugin with WEP40/WEP128 and WPA/WPA2 (personal only) support
- Bluetooth plugin
Also plugins with additional features are available:
- DHCP plugin (dhclient)
- Resolver plugin (DNS proxy)
- Loopback setup
- PolicyKit support
Compilation and installation
============================
In order to compile Connection Manager you need following software packages:
- GCC compiler
- GLib library
- D-Bus library
- PolicyKit (optional)
To configure run:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.
To compile and install run:
make && make install
Configuration and options
=========================
For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled:
--enable-ethernet
Enable support for Ethernet network cards
--enable-wifi
Enable support for WiFi devices (requires wpa_supplicant)
--enable-bluetooth
Enable support for Bluetooth devices (requires BlueZ)
--enable-dhclient
Enable DHCP client support for ISC dhclient based systems
The location of the dhclient binary is auto-detected, but it
can be overwritten via --with-dhclient=<path-to-binary>.
At least one DHCP client option should be selected. It is
possible to select both and then uDHCP will be tried first
before falling back to dhclient.
--enable-dnsproxy
Enable DNS proxy support for /etc/resolv.conf abstraction
The best solution for multiple connections and proper DNS
handling is a DNS proxy server. This binds a DNS proxy
server to port 53 on the loopback interface (127.0.0.1).
The /etc/resolv.conf file needs a "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
entry, but can now set the immutable bit or be on a read-only
filesystem. No further modification to that file will be made.
It is important that this is not used together with other
DNS proxy solution like dnsmasq.
--enable-loopback
Enable setup of loopback device
For distributions with a really minimal init system and no
networking scripts this can take care of setting up the
loopback device and enabling it.
It is safe to select this option even if networking scripts
are in place. It detects an already configured loopback
device and leaves it as it is.
--enable-polkit
Enable support for PolicyKit authorization
This allows to check every D-Bus access against a security
policy and so restrict access to certain functionality.
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