On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, John DeDourek wrote:
It seems that the way of the future is the network manager. For me, it will be essential that I have control. I don't want it to select the neighbor's network (or one of the alternate networks here at work) when I am trying to analyze a specific network. Presumably network manager has (or will have) this capability. Otherwise we will either not use it, or hand craft it to satisfy our requirements.
I don't think NM is intended to be the be-all and end-all of net configuration utilities. I run it on my laptops, where it is a boon and a blessing (mostly), but I have never run it on a workstation or server that lives plugged into a single wall socket.
Also, NM doesn't (shouldn't) connect willy-nilly to Wireless networks it's never been connected to before.
Finally, if you want to influence the direction of NM development, networkmanager-list@xxxxxxxxx (http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list) is the place to go.
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
