Am 20.06.2013 20:55, schrieb Matthew Miller:
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
>> Mind if I ask why you think this way about NetworkManager? The NM
>> currently shipping in Fedora 19 has full support for managing static
>> NICs, as well as bonding, bridging and VLAN support for enterprise
>> use-cases.
> I think most "traditional" system admins see a running NM daemon as an
> additional point of failure in a static network. If my server's network
> setup is static, I don't want a daemon running attempting to "manage"
> it. If it has a bug, gets misconfigured, etc., it might do something to
> screw up an otherwise working setup.
Hence, the RFE -- a mode which sets up the above, and then goes away.
There are significant advantages to having a single code path for network
configuration on the system -- easier support, simpler documenation, easier
administration between multiple systems, easier development of new
distribution features overall
this is simply the wrong road
why do we have multiple desktops?
why do we have a ton of text-editors?
why do we have different mail-programs?
why do we have differnet web-browsers?
because they are useful in different ways as well as configs
working since decades for network-setup and firewalling