NetworkManager update

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Fri Apr 28 18:11:11 UTC 2006


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
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