minimal install too minimal

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Mar 18 14:02:52 UTC 2010


Tom Horsley (horsley1953 at gmail.com) said: 
> > This way both minimal install and bigger 
> > installs that use network manager can coexist.
> 
> Actually, people claim they can coexist already, now that
> the NM_MANAGED (or whatever it is named) flag has been added
> to the ifcfg files.

That's never set by default, so you'd have them both managing
the same interfaces.

Now, in rawhide/F13, you have integration code such that
ifup/ifdown will call NetworkManager if it's running to
bring devices up/down, however, this is very new code and
probably still needs some shaking out.

> Which really brings up the question:
> Why the heck is network disabled by default? If they can
> in fact coexist, why not just always enable both?

Starting two services is wasteful.

Bill


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