bcnm
What is it ?
In its final form, bcnm is a client network manager: it automatically handles network connections for a client machine. It supports Ethernet and Wi-Fi. IP addresses can be attributed statically or via DHCP.
However, given the existence, and work being done, on ifupdown-ng, it is likely that not much effort will be put into the "network manager" part of bcnm. The package as it exists today is still maintained, because some tools rely on the programs and libraries it already provides: a tool to wait for network interfaces to reach a certain state, and a comfortable C API to control wpa_supplicant.
This is not even my final form!
Installation
Requirements
- A Linux-based system with a standard C development environment
- GNU make, version 3.81 or later
- skalibs version 2.15.0.0 or later. It's a build-time requirement. It's also a run-time requirement if you link against the shared version of the skalibs library.
Licensing
bcnm is free software. It is available under the ISC license.
Download
- The current released version of bcnm is 0.0.2.2. You can access its checksum here.
- Alternatively, you can checkout a copy of the
bcnm
git repository:
git clone git://git.skarnet.org/bcnm
- There's also a Codeberg mirror, or a GitHub mirror, or a SourceHut mirror of the bcnm git repository.
Compilation
- See the enclosed INSTALL file for installation details.
Upgrade notes
- This page lists the differences to be aware of between the previous versions of bcnm and the current one.
Reference
Commands
All these commands exit 111 if they encounter a temporary error, and 100 if they encounter a permanent error - such as a misuse.
Libraries
Related resources
- bcnm is discussed on the skaware mailing-list.