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[Bill Nottingham]

Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl) said: 
> > I really don't know what you mean by this. For displaying devices,
> > addresses, and routes, they will work like they always have. If you
> > use it to change the configuration of a device out from under NetworkManager,
> > well, then you've causes your own issue. (Much like if you change 
> > the address out from whatever /etc/init.d/network configured it
> > as, actually.)
> 
> The question is to make NM aware of such changes (or even do them through
> NM).

I'm curious - why is 'make <blah> aware of me changing things out from under
it and handling it across up/down/reboot' more of a prority for NM than
for the old network scripts?

Bill