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|| 3G || (./) [[#note1|1]] || (./) || {X} [[#note2|2]] || (./) [[#note3|[3] ]] || {X} || || 3G || (./) [[#note1|[1] ]] || (./) || {X} [[#note2|[2] ]] || (./) [[#note3|[3] ]] || {X} ||
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|| SMS || {X} || (./) || {X} || (./) || {X} ||
|| Bluetooth DUN (3G) || (./) (with blueman) || ? || {X} || {X} || {X} ||
|| Bluetooth PAN (3G) || (./) (with blueman) || ? || (./) || {X} || {X} ||		 || SMS || {X} || (./) [[#note4|[4] ]] || {X} || (./) || {X} ||
|| Bluetooth DUN (3G) || (./) (with blueman) || (./) (with blueman) || {X} || {X} || {X} ||
|| Bluetooth PAN (3G) || (./) (with blueman) || (./) (with blueman) || (./) || {X} || {X} ||
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 * <<Anchor(note4)>> [4] -- Modem Manager supports SMS via it's DBUS API, however this feature is not yet UI accessible.

Connection Manager comparison

This table is meant as a high level feature comparison matrix of the current group of open-source network management software solutions available for Linux today ( as of early July 2009 ).

The versions of software used in this comparison were:

  • Network Manager -- 0.7.1

  • Modem Manager -- 0.2 based snapshot

  • ConnMan -- 0.19

  • Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) -- 2.0

  • Wicd -- 1.6.1

Network Manager

Network Manager + Modem Manager

Connman

VMC

Wicd

3G

(./) [1]

(./)

(X) [2]

(./) [3]

(X)

3G Signal Strength

(X)

(./)

NA

(./)

NA

SMS

(X)

(./) [4]

(X)

(./)

(X)

Bluetooth DUN (3G)

(./) (with blueman)

(./) (with blueman)

(X)

(X)

(X)

Bluetooth PAN (3G)

(./) (with blueman)

(./) (with blueman)

(./)

(X)

(X)

Manual IP/DNS

(./)

(./)

?

?

(./)

Wireless

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

WEP

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

WPA Personal

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

WPA Enterprise

(./)

(./)

(X)

(X)

(./)

Wired

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

PPPoe (DSL)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(X)

(X)

VPN X, Y, Z

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(X)

(X)

(X)

wimax

(X)

(X)

(./) [N]

(X)

(X)

system connections

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

connection sharing

unreliable

unknown

unknown

unknown

(X)

multi user capable

(./) (probs with user sett.)

(./) (probs with user sett.)

(X)

(./)

(./) [N]

Connection Editor

(./)

(./)

(X)

?

(./)

Plugable/extensibility

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

Overall robustness

Improving

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Upstream responsiveness

Good

Good

Unknown [N]

Unknown [N]

  • make a comparison table Connman 3G
    • to be filled out.

Notes

  • [1] -- Network Manager 0.7.x has limited support for 3G. Full support for Modem Manager is planned for the 0.8 release. A patched version of Network Manager 0.7.1 integrated with Modem Manager is available from the Modem Manager PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~modemmanager/+archive/ppa ).

  • [2] -- Connman 3G support is planned. It's unclear at this point whether Connman will support Modem Manager or only support the new joint Intel/Nokia project called oFono ( http://ofono.org ). See moblin bug #401.

  • [3] -- VMC 2.0 supports a fixed set of 3G cards ( which can be extended via a plugin API ). Future versions of VMC should integrate with Network Manager ( via the Modem Manager DBUS API ).

  • [4] -- Modem Manager supports SMS via it's DBUS API, however this feature is not yet UI accessible.

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