NetworkManager: I want to believe, but...

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri May 23 11:31:33 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 11:56 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> 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.

Right; simply because you don't keep your laptop in one place all the
time, it's definitely a candidate for NM.

Dan




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