System Config Tools Cleanup Project - tools to eliminate/replace

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 17:10 +0100, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> * system-config-network
>   - replacement NetworkManager
>   - missing IPv6? routing?

Not my turf, but I'll comment anyway. IMO, some things need to happen
before NM could be used everywhere from a functionality POV (not
addressing bloat here ;-), here's what I think of right now:

- it needs to support an arbitrary number of interfaces up at the same
time (i.e. multiple LANs/WLANs/VPNs simultaneously)
- it needs to support arbitrarily complicated routing setups, if I'm
connected to two VPNs at the same time it better do that right
- It should (optionally) not immediately kill off interfaces with
dropped links
- DNS handling needs to be improved a great deal, e.g. use private DNS
server for home LAN, use VPN DNS server for their respective addresses
_only_ (e.g. for specific domains/IP ranges)

Nils
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