On Thursday 03 February 2005 02:50, John Thacker wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:02:24AM +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > > Crazy idea: shut off all the daemons that need network (from normal > > init processing) and then only spawn them when appropriate from > > NetworkManager. > > Definitely crazy until NetworkManager can actually handle all > connections. For example, right now it can't handle any machine with > multiple active connections, which includes machines that do > connection sharing. (Among other things, it doesn't believe that you > would have a static IP with no default gateway.) And, it needs to handle virtuals: OpenVPN, VmWare, vpnc, etc. etc. -- -jeff