upgrade to rawhide report

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:45:57 -0400, Colin Walters <walters at redhat.com> wrote:
>> static addressing,
> If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager.

What's the target audience and usage scenario for NetworkManager again?
There are real world intranets that don't use dhcp, where desktops are assigned
a static ip, and where linux, while not officially supported by the
helpdesk or it, is tolerated.
If NetworkManager is there to make connectivity drop-dead easy to
setup and manage, static addressing needs some level of support if you
want to target end-users running systems inside a variety of intranets
and not just home users sitting behind a cable modem router.  It's not
so much a question of what a user wants to do... its a question of
what the network-admins force a user to do, and making it as easy and
painless as possible for an end-user trying to get a linux system up
in running in a non-supportive environment.

-jef"sitting on a staticly addresses linux desktop on an intranet at
the moment, and is desperately hoping that the configuration tools get
good enough so that the 10 other people in the wing of the facility
can FINALLY be able to install and configure their own boxes without
ever having to bother me since the hinderdesk doesn't offer ANY
support for linux even though the technical staff are all pretty much
running at least one linux box, but I'm not bitter, not bitter at
all"spaleta