Problem setting up wired networking
Steve Thompson
smt at vgersoft.com
Fri Nov 14 13:16:55 UTC 2008
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Per Bothner wrote:
> Steve Thompson wrote:
>> No, the pre-network manager world was not better for those systems. So for
>> those systems it is perhaps an advance. But that doesn't justify breaking
>> it for the other 90+% (or, in my case, 100%).
>
> That seems dubious.
Hardly.
> You think NetworkManager "broke" things (or at least made network
> configuration more difficult) for 90+% of systems?
Yes. As I said, in my case, NM broke 100% of the machines that I tried it
on.
> Perhaps if you count each pc in a 1000-pc server farm separately, but
> even in those cases I'm surprised NetworkManager would "break" things.
If I have to log in to every single frigging box and fix the configuration
after I install, then I definitely count every one.
> I'm very happy with NetworkManager.
I'm not.
> It has made networking much easier for me,
Good.
> and I suspect the vast majority of Fedora users (not to mention Ubuntu
> and other distros).
That seems dubious.
Steve
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