Fedora 7
Dennis Gilmore
dennis at ausil.us
Fri Jan 5 03:18:00 UTC 2007
On Thursday 04 January 2007 8:59 pm, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) (netmask at webset.net) said:
> > #1 - Having some *very* easy way to switch between NetworkManager and
> > regular 'ifup'. I know SUSE has something similar: you just go into
> > their network configuration tool and select a radio box (Use NM / Use
> > ifup). It would be cool for laptop users that roam a lot (like me). If
> > there is nobody available to work on that, I would be glad to if you
> > point me the directions on whom should I coordinate with.
>
> I'm not sure this is the right answer - it's certainly the wrong
> question to be asking the user in general. For the cases that NM hits
> now, we'd want to fix any cases that would cause people to want to switch
> to ifup, at least.
I think the right Answer is to make NM cover all cases. where you don't need
to go to other tools. I use entirely NM. but i could see instances where
i need to choose between multiple static wired configs that NM may not be
the easiest tool to use.
--
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
Proud Australian
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