On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser > > or mail app that they are offline? > > Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an online/offline > menu selection and if you try to browse to a site when your network is > offline then the browser will generate the appropriate error message. In > any case, these notifications are only really of use on a single-homed > non LAN connected system. On an office LAN, you may well be able to > still access your mail server but a problem means that you cannot access > any web sites.
A network connection manager tells apps when the machine's interface goes down, not when the gateway is no longer available. You have these two things conflated. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
