Bug 461179
| Summary: | RFE: emit D-Bus signal when a lease is handed out | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | James Laska <jlaska> |
| Component: | dnsmasq | Assignee: | Patrick Laughton <jima> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | dcbw, jima, jturner, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-06-16 14:26:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
James Laska
2008-09-04 18:21:50 UTC
Not really; the only thing that knows is the DHCP server (dnsmasq), which doesn't expose this information. However, it's a good idea if we could do it, maybe dnsmasq could send a signal out on its D-Bus interface whenever it hands out a lease to a new client. Then the applet could listen for that signal and do something intelligent with it. Isn't this more of an upstream RFE? Simon is quite reasonable about listening to feature requests. Actually, looking at http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/CHANGELOG, it appears this handy-dandy feature was added as of 2.46: Emit DBus signals as the DHCP lease database changes. Thanks to Jeremy Laine for the patch. James, I imagine that's sufficiently close to what you're looking for? (I mean, the lease database SHOULD change on a lease being issued, unless I'm completely inept.) I apologize for the delay in addressing this bug. Patrick: thanks for your response. I'm not too familiar with the internals, but if that addresses the RFE for having a pop-up notification dialog when wireless clients connect to a NM Shared connection ... that'd be fine by me. Err, that would handle the dnsmasq side of the DBus connection, correct. I have no idea who'd be responsible for the other end (i.e., the actual pop-up). Rawhide has 2.47-1 now, and 2.48-1 (which addresses Bug #494094) shortly. F11 has 2.46, F10 has 2.45 (for now). How far back are you hoping to have this? I'm still trying to decide how far back I want to push 2.48-1 (for #494094), so I'm open to input. > How far back are you hoping to have this? My expectations are that this feature would be added upstream to land in a future release of NM in Fedora. I don't know if the dnsmasq change you noted in bug#494094 is related to the sending of a d-bus signal or not. Bug #494094 is only peripherally related to this bug; it merely affects how early in the boot process dnsmasq is available, which shouldn't be a major factor for this. For the purposes of having the DBus functionality available for future use (Rawhide & F-11), I believe this bug is resolved. Thank you. |