ConnectionManagerComparison

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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 (current connman status reflects later version)

  • Vodafone Mobile Connect (VMC) -- 2.0

  • Wicd -- 1.6.1

Network Manager

Network Manager + Modem Manager

Connman

VMC

Wicd

3G

(./) [1]

(./)

(./) [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

(./) [5]

(./) [5]

(X)

(X)

(X)

wimax

(X)

(X)

(./) [6]

(X)

(X)

system connections

(./)

(./)

(./)

(X)

(./)

connection sharing

(./) [7]

unknown

unknown

unknown

(X)

multi user capable

(./) [8]

(./) [8]

(X)

(./)

(./) [9]

Connection Editor

(./)

(./)

(X)

?

(./)

Plugable/extensibility

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

(./) [N]

Overall robustness

Improving

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Upstream responsiveness

Good

Good

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

  • 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 currently support Ericsson MBM modems only. A plugin model exists for supporting other devices. 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.

  • [5] -- VPN is possible via the network-manager VPN plugin packages found in Universe.

  • [6] -- WiMax requires extra packages which are not bundled with core Connman.

  • [7] -- unreliable ( according to JackWasey; needs substantiation ).

  • [8] -- problems with user settings ( needs more details... ).

  • [9] -- user settings can be shared globally only ( ie. no private per-user settings )