NetworkManager: I want to believe, but... [was Re: F9 potential service network bug?]

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > If you're using a single ethernet adapter, statically configured,
> > without a desktop, and only running say httpd and samba, then no, you
> > probably don't want to use NM.  You certainly _could_ if you wanted to.
> No, we probably *do* want people using NetworkManager here because
> maintaining two entirely orthogonal network stacks is somewhat insane
> and makes the rest of the system harder to manage. 

Right, now *this* one I see as a strong selling point -- but it's selling
more to the system developers than to sysadmins (and, presumably, enterprise
Linux customers, if that's on anyone's mind...).

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