Hello arch developers! I looked at netcfg code and functionality and I think that this can be usefull replacement for NetworkManager. Interface for writing new modules is simple and I think it can be usefull on other linux distributions. Now I found that there is netctl fork which is like new generation of netcfg. From info in readme I see that now it depends on systemd, which is very controverse init daemon and not all linux distributions and user using it... I'm not using arch, but I'd like to use netcfg/netctl. My current situation is that I need to connect to ethernet with 802.1X authentification (high priority!) and then try connection without 802.1X (normal dhcp - low priority). And seems that netcfg is only one tool which done it successfully. Is archlinux going to participate to Google Summer of Code 2013? If yes I'd like to extend netcfg/netctl project. What do you think, it is possible? Is there some future plan or TODO? My imagination is that network tool can auto configure (without user interact) any network adapter based on information from config files (profiles). Also network tool should support any possible wireless configuration (which support for example wpa_supplicant), but have configuration in one file (not one for supplicant, one for ip/dhcp and one for static dns). I think that hostapd support can be also usefull or full automatic ipv6 configuration (use stateless dns, read M/O bits from RA and use dhcpv6 when needed). -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@gmail.com