Op woensdag 6 juni 2012 01:04:05 schreef JA Magallón: > On 06/05/2012 11:41 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:44:31PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > >> Le 05/06/2012 16:20, Olav Vitters a écrit : > >>> Also, with latest NetworkManager, it seems you can do pretty advanced > >>> network configurations (lacks UI). The UI is planned for GNOME 3.6. > >>> However, seems that loads of Mageia users have issues with > >>> NetworkManager, so not sure what to do. Perhaps safer to wait a year and > >>> hope that other distributions solve the bugs? > >> > >> Approximatively 50% of those problems come from the coexistence with > >> drakxtools and sysinit, conflicting for the control of the > >> interface, rather than actual problems in NM code. Waiting for them > >> to magically disapear won't help much... > > > > Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to > > make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore? > > I tink it is _lot_ easier even for drakxtools to write a file into > /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections that to mess with ifcfg-* files. > > And NM is the only sane way to have, in my case, 4 or 5 WiFi configurations > for the same interface and let it pick the right one depending on my > location. It is just marvelous, and without any ifcfg-* file rewriting > on the fly. > > And I suppose it can also be done, but I never managed to do without NM: > let my linux in the far corner of the house boot and connect to wifi > without any user logged in... > > So in my case, a big +1 for NM and kill all sysvinit files for network. > > I acknowledge that I never tried to do bonding with NM, for example... [...]
i need bonding and bridging and vlans, but what about AoE, or even STP in bridging. next to wifi, what about vpns? for NM to replace initscripts/drakxtools/mganetapplet it not only needs to do all that, but have for KDE and Gnome AND other DE's a way to graphically do all that, that's preferably the same. i guess this ties in the fact that imho gnome tries to do too much. maybe it would be better to have a single graphic UI that can handle NM no matter the DE. in any case, imho it's too soon for us to drop drakxtools/mganetapplet/if-cfg* (if ever). let's retalk about this for mga4.
