On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 11:31 -0400, Pavel Simerda wrote: > > It isn't documented (perhaps in the literate source), but ifupdown > > supports tagged interfaces transparently. If you want an ethernet > > interfaces on VLAN 5, this will do the trick: > > > > iface iface.X inet ... > > The long-term goal for many distros is to switch to NetworkManager only. At > least we should make NetworkManager standalone in the common networking cases > covered by ifcfg-rh, ifupdown and similar.
Well, at least we want to make that an *option*. Pragmatically, this is Linux, and I don't think we'll ever achieve 100% coverage, and I don't think we *want* to either (if we did, NM would be a pile of unmaintainable hacks). Instead, I believe our goal is to make NM useful enough, easy enough, and understandable enough, that people *want* to use NM rather than wading through a bunch of scripts. We don't want to force NM upon people; instead we need to make NM *better* than the existing options so that it's a no-brainer choice. There will always be people that want to tinker and do something else or have so totally crack-rock use-cases that we have no hope of easily supporting them, and that's fine. That's what software is about. Dan > Does this actually work without ifupdown? > > Cheers, > > Pavel > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
