On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 07:46 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 09:37:56PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> BTW, when using NetworkManager for desktops, do we really need network-
> scripts and sysconfig/networking at all?
Define "desktop". If you mean "dhcp managed disposable splat" then
probably
not, but desktop also covers a large multitude of other things including
secure IPsec networks,
Yes, for this you definitely need static configuration on the machine.
Handling VPNs is tough, but we need to do it.
static addressing,
If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager.
cable modems,
My experience is these are all just DHCP.
ppp, ...
This is tricky in a NetworkManager world, since there is no way to know
when the user has plugged in a phone cable into their modem (AFAIK).
Probably we will just require using system-config-network for this case.