Network configuration future

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 08/29/2012 03:17 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 01:58 PM, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> 		Why Did You Do This?!
> 
> Do we really need yet another network management thing?
> =======================================================
...

> We've got Network Manager, which is also doing it's job nicely and won't
> give you any headaches if you prevent it from stepping on anybody else's
> toes. Or try to make it manage a thousand devices, like on System z.
> 
> *** Network Manager is just another daemon created for a task
> which historically often did not need any daemons. It's almost as if
> the new generation of Unix hackers wants to redo everything -
> in x10 or x100 times bloated and more complex way than it was done
> before. Yes, guys, old stuff has problems and limitations. But
> switching into high gear and writing a ton of stuff is not a solution
> I like. Can you *think it through* and fix/improve stuff WITHOUT
> increasing its complexity tenfold as a minimum? Yes, I do realize
> that elegant solution is harder to do than coding spree solution,
> but I still hope...

It all happened before, and it will happen again:

http://www.drdobbs.com/article/print?articleId=225701475&dept_url=/windows/