On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:38:40 Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Quite a lot of people still don't want to use NetworkManager. It makes > > little sense on a system which just sits there connected to a static IP > > address 24/7. > > I think it does because it provides a useful networking API for other > applications to consume. For example, answering the question "is > there an active network link" was effectively impossible for app > authors before. Yes, this make sense and it's really quite useful - applications know current network state. So now we should collect what is still missing in NM and what do we really need to have. > Also, in my opinion on a well-managed network if you want a fixed IP > address, the right way to do it is MAC matching on the DHCP server, > not client configuration. And NetworkManager works well in such a > setup. +1, but there are still devices that don't allow this (as my ADSL router, I can only have random IP, no MAC binding available). Jaroslav -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
