On 06/21/2013 03:01 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
On the other hand, having NetworkManager available all the time
enables things like management tools to use its API to query system
status, instead of guessing it from kernel information and heuristic
analysis of some files under /etc.
Current network information is available from the kernel and doesn't
require "guessing". Why would you code something to talk to some random
daemon API (that may change) when you could talk directly to the source
via the kernel netlink API?
The kernel does not know anything about interfaces which do not exist,
possibly lacks information about interfaces which are not up, and has no
concept whatsoever of DNS, DHCP (at least after boot) or OpenVPN or
settings.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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