Am 05.04.2015 um 17:29 schrieb lee: > So there isn't really a choice and rp-pppoe is some kind of additional > thing?
As far as I remember yes. > What are its advantages? Like I said before, easier to configure and to handle. > Networkmanager sucks, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf and does all kinds > of weird things. If you need or want to use fixed DNS servers you can set them in the IPv4 and/or IPv6 settings of each connection, and Networkmanager puts those into /etc/resolv.conf. I haven't seen Networkmanager doing weird things yet, and I'm using it quite a while for several connection types like simple ethernet, WLAN and mobile broadband. > Maybe it's useful when you need to switch between > connections all the time; that's not what I'm doing. I'm not using kde > or gnome, either. It's also useful if you want to automatically reconnect when the connection got lost as soon as a reconnect is possible again. Neither ppp nor rp-pppoe can do that. nm-applett also works with Xfce or LXDE if you're using those. Networkmanager itself contains several tools for the text console like nmcli and nmtui. And if you need to run a script every time the internet connection is established or closed just put it into /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. Parameter $1 gives the network device and $2 is either up or down.
