network vs NetworkManger services ??

[Tom Horsley]

From: Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
> 1. If you have a DHCP server on the network, then *IT* will configure
> your network, "automatically".  There's no client-side
> user-configuration involved with that, the server holds the
> configuration data.  Yes, it is possible for a DHCP client to have
> overriding local configuration, but network manager doesn't seem to
> support it, and that sort of thing's a kludge to try and get around
> problems with badly set up DHCP servers, which would be better sorted
> out by reconfiguring the server.

Unfortunately, not everything can be specified via DHCP. The one
in particular I need a dhclient exit hook for is to fix the
"search" directive in the resolv.conf file. I found it absolutely
incredible that NetworkManager decided it just had to invent
completely new (undocumented) ways to run hooks instead of using
the (moderately) documented hooks already described in the dhclient
documentation. So you can have perfectly operating dhclient hooks,
but they won't work in NetworkManager because it is far too
"improved" to be anything like backward compatible :-(.

Fortunately the "network" service will also configure your system
from a DHCP server, and it still works the same way it always did,
using the same dhclient hooks that always worked before. (I just
wonder how long fedora will continue to ship both services).