starting Fedora Server SIG

[Olivier Galibert]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl) said: 
> > > I really don't know what you mean by this. For displaying devices,
> > > addresses, and routes, they will work like they always have. If you
> > > use it to change the configuration of a device out from under NetworkManager,
> > > well, then you've causes your own issue. (Much like if you change 
> > > the address out from whatever /etc/init.d/network configured it
> > > as, actually.)
> > 
> > The question is to make NM aware of such changes (or even do them through
> > NM).
> 
> I'm curious - why is 'make <blah> aware of me changing things out from under
> it and handling it across up/down/reboot' more of a prority for NM than
> for the old network scripts?

I suspect it's more of a "don't change it back under my feet, don't
destroy the config at shutdown", which are things NM was prone to do
under F8 at least.  Dunno it that changed.

  OG.