starting Fedora Server SIG

[Seth Vidal]

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Benny Amorsen wrote:

> Seth Vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> writes:
>
>> Colin, let me very clear, I think what NM does for the desktop is very
>> good, indeed.  I like not having to fiddle around to make WEP stuff
>> work using iwconfig anymore. I appreciate what's been achieved.
>
>> That doesn't make it a more useful thing on a server.
>
> I think you will find that servers will have more complicated
> requirements in the future. Things like dynamic interface/routing
> failover, 802.1x authentication, and vrrp/hsrp.
>
> Personally I would be very happy if NetworkManager integrated with
> Quagga.

I think you'll find the above is not the common webserver/fileserver in a 
corner, either.

-sv