On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:26:08PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Too much context got snipped out, apparently. The question here is: what > > is the advantage of having NetworkManager handle *static* addresses? > Even with static addresses you can have your connectivity dropped for > various reasons. And having one way of finding out "is the network up" > makes it so that we can actually *depend* on that in other places > throughout the OS But "is the network up" a generally useful question? I find that "can I reach the network resource I need" is the more important one, and the "is the network up" issue basically a detail. I mean, who cares if the network is up if the gateway is down? This is why external monitoring (big brother or the like) is more practical. As I said earlier, I can see this as having some minor use, but I'm gonna have some serious trouble making it alone be the selling point. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
