Why not? Why bother having two different ways of doing something?

2009/11/4 <[email protected]>

> Dan Williams wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:54 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I notice that if I stop the NetworkManager service:
>>>    /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
>>> that the interfaces started by NetworkManager are not always stopped.
>>>
>>> Note: this is a F12 qemu-kvm guest with multiple (two) NICs defined.
>>>
>>> Bug or "feature"??
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Feature.  It allows you to do 'service NetworkManager restart' and have
>> the connection survive.  This is implemented for wired static and DHCP
>> interfaces only and was requested quite a few times by people who run
>> headless servers where you may need to update NM on-the-fly and not be
>> kicked out when doing so.  It's also necessary for NM to seamlessly take
>> over a connection from the initrd where the rootfs is network mounted.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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> Why would anyone use NM on a server or on a diskless node?
> (Just wondering...)
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