Network Reconnect is a utility designed to make managing wired and wireless network connections easy. It is a set of scripts for Linux operating systems that uses certain built-in technologies to provide basic network connections. The purpose of this is to eliminate overhead present in other utilities and to add extra features that will benefit a vast number of users.
This software utility is currently in active development, and we do not recommend that you use it in real-world production scenarios. Right now, there are plenty of issues, so please feel free to contribute if you want to help us out!
I first created network-reconnect when my WiFi card was having issues with dropouts and I needed to refresh the connection every time the link went dead. Eventually, I realized that network-reconnect needed to have some sort of interface so I could connect to different networks. The program soon evolved into what you see today. I've decided to share network-reconnect because:
- many mainstream computers have unreliable network interfaces that could use a simple reconnect script
- other network connection utilities for Linux/UNIX have a lot of unnecessary overhead
We currently support a wide range of useful and easy-to-use features that are built right into network-reconnect, with even more cool functionality on the way. Here is a quick breakdown of the most notable features we offer:
- Two ways to use: GUI and CLI
- Management of basic wired and wirelss connections
- Simple and advanced report generation
- Automatic checking and refreshing of all connections
- Instant-on connection upon wakeup and bootup
- Extensive backend independent of interfaces
If you want to know more about how to install and use network-reconnect, please see our wiki.