NetworkManager: I want to believe, but...

[Till Maas]

On Fri May 23 2008, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:25:01PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> > 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...).

It is also helpful for users, e.g. I use my notebook sometimes in places where 
it gets a dynamic ip address, sometimes where it has its static ip address. 
Here it would also be nice to have only one tool that can handle both instead 
of two that can handle only some parts.

Regards,
Till
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