system-config-network & Zeroconf

Jeff Spaleta jspaleta at gmail.com
Wed Mar 5 20:52:00 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Well, eventually the connection editor could potentially replace the GUI
>  functionality of s-c-n and ifup/ifdown could be pointed at NM, but we're
>  not there yet.  There's a few more device types that NM would need to
>  support (mainly PPPoE/PPPoATM connections, good ISDN, etc) before we
>  could think about replacing anything.  They are going to be parallel but
>  mutually exclusive for the time being.  Also there will be some people
>  who won't ever want to use NM for some setups even though NM could work
>  for them; but that's fine.

Are those people...looking at using zeroconf. I get the reasoning for
avoiding NM in a more controlled networking situation... but zeroconf
seems like NM's bread and butter to me... but what the hell do i know.

-jef




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