Project Stick In The Mud :-)

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:24 AM, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:11:57 -0500
> "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here, I think a compromise is necessary. If you're running a server, I
>> think you're competent enough to turn of NetworkManager (it was really
>> crappy a few versions ago). While I think there needs to be away to
>> have a network connection on boot, that seems, even to me, to be low
>> priority.
>
> But why am I being called on to be the one who needs additional
> competence? Why can't NetworkManager just say, "Oh look, this machine
> has a static IP, let's just start networking exactly the same way
> it always started". As long as people have to intervene to fix things
> after an improvement, I don't consider it an improvement.


Good idea, I hadn't thought of that (I didn't directly associate
server with static IP since it's isn't an explicit requirement)

Have you RFEed that? If not, I will.


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