On 06/20/2013 08:01 PM, Stephen Gallagher 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.
NetworkManager has historically been perceived as a desktop/laptop
tool but in its current incarnation it should be usable for all but
the most esoteric enterprise workloads.
To clarify, this currently only applies to the GUI tool, right?
I recently hosed my desktop installation and couldn't bring up the VPN
from the command line, using nmcli. The nmcli manual page suggests that
feature parity with the GUI tools is not a goal ("It is not meant as a
full replacement for nm‐applet or other similar clients but as a
complementary utility to those programs."), and the lack of actual
device configuration facilities in nmcli reflects that. In Fedora 19,
the referenced nm-settings(5) manual page is missing, too.
Even if you end up configuring interfaces the old way under
/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts, NetworkManager still offers the
benefit of the centralized configuration parsing. But on the non-GUI
interface, functionality is either well-hidden or still missing.
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