Who edits my ifcfg-eth0 ?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, John DeDourek wrote:
>
> It seems that the way of the future is the network manager.  For
> me, it will be essential that I have control.  I don't want
> it to select the neighbor's network (or one of the alternate
> networks here at work) when I am trying to analyze a specific
> network.  Presumably network manager has (or will have) this
> capability.  Otherwise we will either not use it, or hand craft
> it to satisfy our requirements.

I don't think NM is intended to be the be-all and end-all of net 
configuration utilities.  I run it on my laptops, where it is a boon and a 
blessing (mostly), but I have never run it on a workstation or server that 
lives plugged into a single wall socket.

Also, NM doesn't (shouldn't) connect willy-nilly to Wireless networks it's 
never been connected to before.

Finally, if you want to influence the direction of NM development, 
networkmanager-list at gnome.org 
(http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list) is the place 
to go.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs