What are your unsatisfied NetworkManager use cases?
Michael H. Warfield
mhw at WittsEnd.com
Wed Oct 22 19:56:48 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:23 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Many people seem to have different issues with NetworkManager. I would
> like to attempt to assist with the progress of NetworkManager by
> collecting use cases which it does not cover at all or properly.
> So please reply with a use case that you have that is not covered, I
> will attempt to collect clarify and log them on the wiki (just
> reactivated my account).
> For my sake please do one use case per email.
Last time I looked, there was no way to prevent NetworkManager from
screwing over /etc/resolve.conf. I have several cases where I want to
run a local caching nameserver (dnsmasq or bind) and/or need statically
configured IPv6 name servers (IPv4 dhcp can not hand out IPv6 nameserver
addresses and NetworkManagers IPv6 support is non-existent - another
issue) and need to have NetworkManager keep it's bleeping hands off
resolve.conf.
This was trivial under the network scripts. Just set PEERDNS=no.
I got so fed up with NetworkManager overriding my specified
resolve.conf that I finally made it immutable. I was also using
dhclient hook scripts to update the dns configuration files but I
understand that might be possible under the NetworkManger directories.
I never found any way to prevent it from committing not-so-random acts
of terrorism to /etc/resolve.conf, though.
Bottom line is failure to support or honor full range of configuration
options available under ifcfg-{interface}.
For me. That's a hard stop show stopper. You can not take features
away that people are using.
NetworkManager seems great for wireless and I use it for wireless but
it just seems like a great big PITA for wired.
> --
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Mike
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