On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:30 AM, James Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/11 19:15, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:44:05PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: >>> >>> ... The GUI network config tools are all for NetworkManager in upstream >>> EL6. >>> >> >> >> Hmm... I am blind and I do not see any GUI tools for the NetworkManager. >> What am I supposed >> to use? (I do see the desktop applet, but I cannot use it unless I am >> standing in front >> of the computer logged in as a root user. A neat trick, if the computer is >> in Japan >> and I am in Vancouver). > > The worrying thing for me is when I installed it ifcfg-eth0 was disabled > onboot leaving it to me to enable it in networkmanager. Not very useful for > a remote install...
The curses based, text compatible system-config-network needs everything a typical desktop or server needs. It lacks some of the foofiness of NetworkManager, but that's both unnecessary and dangerous on a stable desktop or server, as we've seen happen repeatedly for new installations of RHEL based systems over the last 5 years or so.
