Comment 3 for bug 364460

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

> if-pre-up, if-up, if-down, if-post-down , which makes sense since several tasks need to be done
> before taking the interface up or after putting it down. e.g. Firewall configuration, traffic counters etc.

Can you come up with a list of use-cases that are currently doable in the scripts? That would help me a lot.

> Furthermore, Network Manager does not pass the usual and required information as environment
> variables to the scripts to be run. E.g. network name, other configuration parameters, DHCP
> parameters given by the DHCP server (such as DNS configuration) are not passed down to the scripts.

Same here, could you assemble a complete list of usual environment variables missing?

> Network Manager is rather incomplete work and does not yet fit into the ubuntu/debian framework.

that kind of discussion is better done outside a bug - anyway, help to make it better by providing facts like above.