Linux connection manager
Marcel Holtmann
Intel
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The new Connection Manager for Linux is an attempt to create a generic infrastructure for creating networking connections. The main goal is to make the new solution ready for embedded systems. The whole design is modeled to be slim and flexible. This is achieved via a fully plugin and policy based architecture. Connection Manager is the perfect solution for embedded system like phones and tablets that are running Linux and where Network Manager would be too big and complex. The plugin based architecture provides the most flexible way of integrating it into existing solution. Support for HAL, PolicyKit and other standard desktop components has been abstracted into a generic framework and are optional. It is possible to replace them with vendor specific plugins to deal with certain special embedded devices. All the hardware access is done via technology specific plugins. This allows a quick adaption of new technologies without changing the entire framework. The initial release has been made public as part of Moblin.org and includes support for Ethernet, WiFi and Bluetooth. Future releases will add support for Ultra-Wideband, GSM/UMTS and WiMAX.


Marcel Holtmann works for the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. He maintains the Bluetooth subsystem for Linux, the OpenOBEX library and is the author of Connection Manager.




Last modified: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:20:22 +0200