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[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 22:20 -0500, Scott Schmit wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:18:31PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> > NetworkManager is not intended only for mobile devices or notebooks,
> > because that's a small part of the networking story.  Plus, more than
> > just notebooks have needs for the things that NetworkManager brings to
> > the table.
> > 
> > If it's useful for you, that's great.  If you do not find it useful,
> > that's also fine, and it can be masked.  However, we have put great
> > effort into NM so that even if it *is* enabled, it can coexist
> > peacefully with whatever you do on the system outside of NM, and we are
> > constantly improving this.
> > 
> > We hope that NM can be installed on most systems, and will be there when
> > required and useful, but will get out of the way when not required.
> 
> What's the story for NM in router configurations?
> 
> The last time I brought up handling DHCPv6-PD (a strong non-laptop use
> case for NM if I ever saw one), I was told that router configurations
> were out of scope for NM (at least, at that point in time).
> 
> Has that changed? (Or maybe I'm misremembering some nuance...)

Yeah, that would have changed over the past few years.  PD is definitely
something that NM will be able to do in the future.

Dan