Once upon a time, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> said:
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.
I understand that some servers/setups may be able to take advantage of
NM functionality, but assuming that all servers _need_ NM is too much.
This is all IMHO of course.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>