Hi,
I'm currently reading the upstream "Considerations in adopting RHEL 8"
document. The chapter about networking states that traditional networking
scripts (shipped with the network-scripts package) are considered obsolete.
I bluntly admit I don't see the point in this. As far as I'm concerned, I've
been a happy user of NetworkManager since the early days (when folks used to
call it NotworkManager :oD). It's one of those nifty pieces of software that
brought the Linux desktop to the masses - or at least a bit nearer to them -
since it allows managing wireless and wired interfaces transparently and easily
on a laptop or any computer with a wireless card.
On servers though, one of the first post-installation steps I performed was to
get rid of Network-Manager and all its components. The servers I'm working on
are relatively small-scale and have from one to four network interfaces. Each
interface has a corresponding configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
and that's it. From there, I rarely - if ever - touch it. In all my setups,
NetworkManager is merely a useless layer of abstraction, and I like sticking to
the KISS principle and shave off useless layers.
Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory from now
on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this list.
Cheers from the foggy South of France,
Niki
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