Am 20.06.2013 20:55, schrieb Matthew Miller: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: >>> Mind if I ask why you think this way about NetworkManager? The NM >>> currently shipping in Fedora 19 has full support for managing static >>> NICs, as well as bonding, bridging and VLAN support for enterprise >>> use-cases. >> I think most "traditional" system admins see a running NM daemon as an >> additional point of failure in a static network. If my server's network >> setup is static, I don't want a daemon running attempting to "manage" >> it. If it has a bug, gets misconfigured, etc., it might do something to >> screw up an otherwise working setup. > > Hence, the RFE -- a mode which sets up the above, and then goes away. > > There are significant advantages to having a single code path for network > configuration on the system -- easier support, simpler documenation, easier > administration between multiple systems, easier development of new > distribution features overall this is simply the wrong road why do we have multiple desktops? why do we have a ton of text-editors? why do we have different mail-programs? why do we have differnet web-browsers? because they are useful in different ways as well as configs working since decades for network-setup and firewalling
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