Agreed that this is definitely (and desperately?) needed.  In my cases it is to
shutdown NIS, autofs, and nfs mounts.

Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.

Created attachment 317009 [details]
Run dispatch scripts before taking down interfaces

How about this?  Not sure if the call is needed in dispose.

I could also imagine using "predown" instead of "down", but I'm not sure if any dispatch scripts would really be doing different things if called before or after the interface is actually down.  It would also result in the scripts being called twice - once before and once after, but that should be harmless.

Created attachment 317013 [details]
Drop call in dispose

Okay, need to drop the call in dispose at least because req is undefined there.  Not sure if a call should be there though.

In any case, what does the system do if the connection just drpos?  Any system needs to handle unexpected disconnections cleanly even if there was a pre-down event.  If it can handle unexpected disconnections without hanging your box for 2 minutes, then this wouldn't be as large of an issue.  Have any fixes gone into CIFS to handle unexpected disconnections in a better way?  Adding a 'pre-down' wouldn't really fix the core issue here; it's only advisory and would only get called on orderly shutdown.  It wouldn't get called in cases like a) network cable unplugged, b) wifi AP disconnects you, c) wifi driver fails to maintain connection, d) you go out of range, e) DHCP fails to renew the lease because a switch somewhere died, etc.  Many of these cases are common, and I'd expect whatever needed a 'pre-down' event to handle these correctly without a pre-down event.  Furthermore, NetworkManager cannot block on executing pre-down scripts, thus script execution would be time-bounded, and if the script did not complete within, say, 3 seconds, it would be terminated anyway.

Since pre-up and pre-down events share some infrastructure let's make this RFE about both of them.

Preup would be good.  For some reason /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless isn't being run when I plug in my wireless card.

Wow, this is old.  I am running into this bug now, as when the system is put to 
sleep nm-dispatcher is not running scripts in '/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/pre-down.d'.  The problem is that when NetworkManager receives the sleep signal from UPower (via dbus I assume), it
immediately starts deactivating the device to sleep and the dispatcher only executes scripts with action 'down'.  If NM is restarted, the pre-down.d script
is executed.  Perhaps it is a case of NM considering a restart an 'orderly' shutdown event and going to sleep not orderly?

In my use case I am trying to take down the browser , ssh, and any other networking apps.

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