Enabling Connectivity Checking in NetworkManager

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 10 July 2012 17:01, Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com> wrote:
> Actually, why are we running it every 5 minutes? Wouldn't it make more
> sense to run it every 5 minutes only if we don't have a connection, and
> only turn it on following certain events, such as a new network
> interface coming up, or when the user logs in?

Because captive portals are not to be trusted. I believe most of them
time out after an hour or a day or some other arbitrary length of
time. Just because you can access the web now doesn't mean you will be
able to 10 minutes from now.

Jeremy