NifMan Overview

Allows an application to monitor network connections.

When a network protocol has no route available to some destination machine or network, the system uses NifMan to start up an appropriate network interface.

NifMan itself uses a client/server architecture. The server defines a plug-in architecture for agents that establish such interfaces. The standard agent provided is the Generic Agent API, which enables the use of dial-up networking.

The client interface passes application requests to monitor a connection to the NifMan server for processing. It is provided by RNif. Progress information is returned in TNifProgress objects.

Client/Server Overview

Generic Agent Overview