The case against NetworkManager

[Andrew Parker]

On 10/9/07, antonio montagnani <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/10/9, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>:
> > antonio montagnani wrote:
> >
> > > I agree with you, I am running F8T3 in my office (not IT office) and I
> > > am comparing with F7 that are running similar tasks (and I would say
> > > F8T3 is satisfactory at the moment).
> > >
> > > And in my opinion when I started running F8T3, NM was a problem, not
> > > real bugs but I understood that some problems were connected to
> > > programmer's choice.
> >
> > Then the programmer's choice are resulting in unexpected behavior which
> > can be considered as bugs. If you find things not working as expected,
> > just file bug reports.
> >
> As stated by someone else, having TCP/IP fixed in particular for the
> Ethernet and DHCP's served for wireless is my choice.
> If also DHCP's served and fixed TCP/IP for wireless is planned, I
> would be happy.
>
> I speak on my experience, usually I connect by wire when at office, I
> connect wireless with fixed TCP/IP at home when I am in my garden, I
> use DHCP when at my friend's home and in the hotspots.
>

Static IPs are required if you want your router to DNAT specific ports
to specific hosts.  Gamers will typically want this.