On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:28:49AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > That then requires someone ensures every single script/option/method called > > by NetworkManager is also called by the old style paths. > > Not sure about that. The "old style" is very manual. NetworkManager is > entirely dynamic and moving as much per-user as possible. There are > probably things on the old path that shouldn't be used by > NetworkManager, or if they are used, it should just be as fallbacks. The alternative is that every application supports both and gets tested with both. Ughhhhhhhhh. > > It also prevents > > numerous sensible real world usages like "dynamic IP on wireless but prefer > > my static IP on ethernet when at home" - classic configuration. > > If you care enough to want a static IP address at home, then it > shouldn't be problematic to set up a DHCP server that has static IPs for > your MACs. If that is the only machine I posess ? Don't get me wrong - NetworkManager is potentially a very good thing and can't tackle all the corner cases at the design stage or in revision 1. I appeciate that. Alan
