On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 20:44 +0000, Guillaume Hetier wrote:

Hi,

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Are there any specific applications you're thinking of?

Our main targets are programs setting up IOT devices: we want to give
the guest the capacity to connect to specific networks created by the
IOT device for the duration of their setup.
For that, we want to be able to scan, connect and reflect network
properties precisely enough to let the guest programs go forward with
the setup.

Makes sense. But are there such tools on Linux today? And if so, how do
they work? I certainly haven't seen one on a general purpose Linux,
obviously Android is a different matter (and if you wanted to support
Android you could have a special network manager that mostly defers to
the host)

We would like to make our solution as generic as possible to be
extendable and potentially support for complex use cases if possible,
but we are not aiming for generic network management from the guest.

:)

johannes