NetworkManager update
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Apr 28 21:17:45 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:11 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> Qui, 2006-04-27 às 18:27 -0400, Gene Heskett escreveu:
> > I put that stuff in yesterday, made little difference, NM is just as
> > much the connection assassin as ever, and a wee bit quieter while doing
> > it, so now we have MDI what the heck its actually doing. Is this thing
> > supposed to have a configuration setup gui or anything like that to
> > facilitate telling it what to do next?
> >
> > I tried it again today after doing a service network stop, then a
> > service NetworkManager start, which was fairly quiet but never brought
> > a working connection back up till I had to kill it, and do a pair of
> > service network restarts. Then I was hooked up again. I let it run
> > for about 5 minutes and it never queried the dhcp server.
>
> NetworkManager is about as bad a piece of software as beagle is.
>
> Pushed into wide usage too early in the state of development, they're
> creating an image that is hard to erase. No matter how promising these
> programs are, the necessity and failure to provide are so evident that
> they would best be removed from mass deployment before it's an indelible
> image, until they work in common scenarios.
>
> NetworkManager is useless on a managed network as on the workplace it
> usually is.
> NetworkManger is useless on home networks but for the technical
> illiterate, who don't even have a clue of how to take minimal cautionary
> actions of protection which would render it useless (hiding essid, wap,
> static networks, etc...).
>
> So what use is it for again? It's not the "promise" I criticize, but the
> way it is being "mass deployed" without even a marginal thought.
>
> Rui
What is the above all about? I use NetworkManager at home and at work
and it works well. Better than anything else I have found to do wireless
deployment.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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