[PATCH 3/3] Use the 'get_router_mac_fallback' method if the connectivity implementation fails to get it.

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Aug 23 09:27:32 PDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 18:19 +0200, Javier Fernandez Garcia-Boente wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 17:00 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > I don't see why this would happen unless your backend didn't support it
> > properly, in which case it should be fixed, or disabled.
> > 
> 
> Ok, understood. I was trying to get the MAC of the default gateway, even
> using some unusual way of being online, like bluetooh or usb-networking,
> or fake connections.

I'd rather not enable that at all. In the long run, I'd expect to move
most of the hacks into their own connectivity implementation, so that
people who don't want to run NM, or Connman use that code, and only
those people use that horrible code.



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