A question about NetworkManager

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Roger Grosswiler wrote:

> 2) if you launch NetworkMananger, i just don't do service NetworkManager
> start, i also do service NetworkManangerDispatcher start (found on the
> fedoraproject-wiki). I still did not find out properly what the Dispatcher
> is for.

NetworkManager doesn't start the network until the user logs in.  So if 
you have services that need a network to start (such as NTP), they will 
fail if started at boot.  The dispatcher allows you to control those 
services so they start and stop with the network rather than at boot.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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