GUPnP – 1.6: Choosing a Context Manager Implementation
Description: Reference for GUPnP-1.6: Choosing a Context Manager Implementation

# Choosing a Context Manager Implementation

Ususally it is fine to trust the auto-detection. If the operating system is not Linux, there is only one choice anyway.

For Linux, four different implementations exist:

- A basic polling implementation, the fall-back if nothing else works.
- A Netlink-based implementation
- Using NetworkManager to identify available network interfaces
- Using Connman to identify the available interfaces
- An Android-specific implementation

With the exception of Android, It is generally recommended to use the Netlink-based implementation. It should co-exist with any other network management implementation.