On Thu, 22 May 2008 22:25:01 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 12:04 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> If you're using a single ethernet adapter, statically configured,
> without a desktop, and only running say httpd and samba, then no, you
> probably don't want to use NM. You certainly _could_ if you wanted to.
No, we probably *do* want people using NetworkManager here because
maintaining two entirely orthogonal network stacks is somewhat insane
and makes the rest of the system harder to manage.
IMO, the options that server admins want (or at least I want) is what dan
essentially says: to run without a daemon "managing" my network
interface... it's just pure bloatiness and feel goodiness from this
perspective. I don't want _another_ thing to have to diagnose when things
go red alert on a bare bones server. So, we have that ability now. I'm
happy. It sounds like this will always be the case, and if so, great.