ToddAndMargo via users writes:
On 2020-04-27 14:55, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> My question was why aren't you letting NetworkManager manage br0?
Because I am doing it the way I learned back when I suffered
with RHEL clones.
And it works
"…now". That's the operative word here. It might work now, but it will not
work forever.
You've finally managed to get it to work, it seems, by having NM manage it.
Although it seems that right now you can still own your network interfaces
yourself, it's a certain bet that at some point things will only work with
NM under Fedora, and the response to any complaints will be "well, you're
free to choose some other distro which works without NetworkManager".
The same thing, pretty much, goes with everything else. Here's another, very
similar situation right now, which is rolling your local iptables rules
versus firewalld.
I saw the handwriting on the wall, on that account, one several releases
ago, and slogged my way through converting what I was doing with iptables
into the equivalent deal with firewalld.
You have to always keep your ears to the ground, for these kinds of things.
Anytime you hear about a new bit of technology that gets introduced as an
alleged successor and a superiod alternative to something that's already
here, don't quite take it, on the face value, any assurances that the old
ways still work. They might still work now, but they won't work forever.
Rest assured. So, start figuring out what you gotta do, while you still have
some time…