On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:38:40 Colin Walters wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Adam Williamson
<awilliam(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> Quite a lot of people still don't want to use
NetworkManager. It makes
> little sense on a system which just sits there connected to a static IP
> address 24/7.
I think it does because it provides a useful networking API for other
applications to consume. For example, answering the question "is
there an active network link" was effectively impossible for app
authors before.
Yes, this make sense and it's really quite useful - applications know current
network state. So now we should collect what is still missing in NM and what
do we really need to have.
Also, in my opinion on a well-managed network if you want a fixed IP
address, the right way to do it is MAC matching on the DHCP server,
not client configuration. And NetworkManager works well in such a
setup.
+1, but there are still devices that don't allow this (as my ADSL router, I
can only have random IP, no MAC binding available).
Jaroslav