Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-05-03 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Mon, 02 May 2011 03:03:51 +0200, Fernando Lemos wrote: 2011/5/1 Miroslav Suchý miros...@suchy.cz: Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): * It doesn't have a good command-line interface It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in NetworkManager:

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-05-01 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): * It doesn't have a good command-line interface It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in NetworkManager: nm-cli nm-tool nm-online I'm not sure if this qualify as good command-line interface :) Miroslav Suchy -- To

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-05-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/5/1 Miroslav Suchý miros...@suchy.cz: Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): * It doesn't have a good command-line interface It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in NetworkManager: nm-cli nm-tool nm-online I'm not sure if this qualify as good

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-22 Thread Bjørn Mork
Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: Preparing to replace network-manager 0.8.3.999-1 (using .../network- manager_0.8.3.999-1_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement network-manager ... Setting up network-manager

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 07:40:33PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:23:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: NM may be good for laptops, so put it in the laptop task and leave the rest alone in the default installation. And keep the installer unable to do things as

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:47:18 +0200 Stig Sandbeck Mathisen s...@debian.org wrote: My major gripe with ifupdown is the lack of CIDR in address, but I can live with that. :) ifupdown 0.7 does support CIDR. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org writes: iface ethX inet static address x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x gateway x.x.x.x up ip rule add downip rule del This means that I need to bring the interface down to change routing? Currently I have post-up

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:32:18PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: This was stated in the original proposal: ifupdown is not event-based and does not integrate correctly with modern boot systems. So what? ifupdown is working on most setups without problems with VLANs bonds, or bridges out of

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:23:32PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: NM may be good for laptops, so put it in the laptop task and leave the rest alone in the default installation. And keep the installer unable to do things as widespread as WPA? And keep it unable to generate a proper configuration

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 09:47:54PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: protocols. I would have preferred something like some routers do: iface eth0 address .. ipv6address .. I think this is a very good idea, because you don’t have to duplicate bridge configurations. If the configuration

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I think it is wrong, based on the fact expressed in these threads that NetworkManager can, by default during upgrade, bring down the network connection. This argument has been rehashed again and again, without ever confronting it to a

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 11:39 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : My first (and last) contact with NM was not a good one. This is another misconception about Network-Manager: since version 0.6 (the first one with which people have been in contact to) was very badly designed, the current version

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Russell Coker
Maybe if there was a version number greater than 0.8 people might be more willing to try network manager again. A rewrite seems like a good reason to have version 1.0 or maybe 2.0. The idea of basing version numbers on technical issues only was given up a long time ago. -- My blog

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On pe, 2011-04-15 at 08:27 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mercredi 13 avril 2011 à 11:39 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : My first (and last) contact with NM was not a good one. This is another misconception about Network-Manager: since version 0.6 (the first one with which people have

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/13/2011 08:53 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: Or in other words, if a server user does an attended install via d-i, doesn't trigger expert mode and accepts the defaults for most questions, is it wrong if they end up with NetworkManager? Yes. That is what we have things like the 'Desktop' task

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Since it was completely redesigned, almost from scratch, this doesn’t apply for 0.8. Its system daemon is able to manage connections without anyone logged on, and with a number of features that makes ifupdown look like a baby toy.

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 05:06:00PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Maybe if there was a version number greater than 0.8 people might be more willing to try network manager again. A rewrite seems like a good reason to have version 1.0 or maybe 2.0. I appreciate your point, but this is

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:22:53AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I think it is wrong, based on the fact expressed in these threads that NetworkManager can, by default during upgrade, bring down the network connection. This

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:53:02 +0100, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: ... Having said all of the above, and the thread being where it is now, I have to admit I can't remember what the value proposition was in the first place. Time to re-read... So, you just failed to provide any justification

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread sean finney
Hi, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:03:40AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: For the record, this was (at least) bugs #432322 and #439917, and I'm extremely pleased that the issues have been resolved. Well done and thank you to all involved. AIUI they weren't resolved, but the scope of the problem was

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Since it was completely redesigned, almost from scratch, this doesn’t apply for 0.8. Its system daemon is able to manage connections without anyone logged on, and with a number of features that makes ifupdown look like a baby toy. So Network-Manager

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Adam Borowski
setups The former works just fine without network-manager, even without any manual configuration at all. The latter has alternatives that don't mess with non-wlan interfaces. Thus, what exactly are you trying to fix by installing network-manager by default? -- 1KB // Microsoft

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: So Network-Manager has finally gained basic features like the ability to set a lower than default MTU? How about bridging? VLANs? Unnumbered interfaces? DHCPv6-PD? Disabling IPv6 SLAAC on a specific interface? Multiple uplinks? Multiple routing tables?

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi [2011-04-15 14:18]: ip rule show | grep -Ev '^(0|32766|32767):|iif lo' \ | while read PRIO NATRULE; do ip rule del prio ${PRIO%%:*} $( echo $NATRULE | sed 's|all|0/0|' ) done iface ethX inet static address x.x.x.x netmask

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org writes: * Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi [2011-04-15 14:18]: ip rule show | grep -Ev '^(0|32766|32767):|iif lo' \ | while read PRIO NATRULE; do ip rule del prio ${PRIO%%:*} $( echo $NATRULE | sed 's|all|0/0|' ) done iface ethX inet static

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:01:06PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Since it was completely redesigned, almost from scratch, this doesn’t apply for 0.8. Its system daemon is able to manage connections without anyone logged on, and with a number of

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Stephan Seitz wrote: NM may be good for laptops, so put it in the laptop task and leave the rest alone in the default installation. And keep the installer unable to do things as widespread as WPA? And keep it unable to generate a proper configuration for laptops? No thanks. -- Joss -- To

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org wrote: I've always believed that peoply chose NM for simplicity.  And I can understand that. It's simple because it doesn't support anything complex, including common VPN setups. ifupdown does not support any VPN setup

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Philip Hands wrote: On the other hand, nobody from the Isn't N-M great camp seems willing to explain why I'd want it in preference to ifupdown on a server, particularly a co-lo remotely admined server. This was stated in the original proposal: ifupdown is not event-based and does not integrate

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Bjørn Mork bj...@mork.no writes: How about bridging? VLANs? Unnumbered interfaces? DHCPv6-PD? Disabling IPv6 SLAAC on a specific interface? Multiple uplinks? Multiple routing tables? Creating tap interfaces connected to virtual swiches? Different types of

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Björn Mork wrote: Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org writes: up ip rule add downip rule del The power of the pre-up/up/down/post-down scripting is tremendous. So is that of NM dispatcher scripts. What is your gripe, again? -- Joss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org writes: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:01:06PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Since it was completely redesigned, almost from scratch, this doesn’t apply for 0.8. Its system daemon is able to manage connections without

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Björn Mork wrote: - without reliance on external commands (such as the ip command or shell scripts) for basic stuff Which is bad because of what? Using the ip command or shell scripts is an important feature to me. I don't want grep, cp, ls etc unified to a single file handling program

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: Björn Mork wrote: Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org writes: up ip rule add downip rule del The power of the pre-up/up/down/post-down scripting is tremendous. So is that of NM dispatcher scripts. And this is documented

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi writes: I'd be interested in seeing real-life ifupdown configurations that handle these. Here's an example from one of my servers that handles _some_ of them. (Addresses rewritten to rfc3330 space, and no explicit IPv6 config): * Two bonded ethernet

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Kris Deugau
Josselin Mouette wrote: For a machine with an IP address assigned by DHCP, which is a very common setup even on servers, ... I have to ask: What sort of overall network setup would you be using, where server IP addresses are assigned by DHCP? I'm having trouble imagining any remotely

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Fernando Lemos fernando...@gmail.com [110415 15:26]: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org wrote: I've always believed that peoply chose NM for simplicity.  And I can understand that. It's simple because it doesn't support anything complex, including

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Kris Deugau | Josselin Mouette wrote: | For a machine with an IP address assigned by DHCP, which is a very common | setup even on servers, | | ... I have to ask: What sort of overall network setup would you be | using, where server IP addresses are assigned by DHCP? Any kind of

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:03:40 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 08:22:53AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 14 avril 2011 à 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : I think it is wrong, based on the fact expressed in these threads that NetworkManager can, by default during

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-15 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: Could those thread participants who have gripes from their last NM experience many years ago please confirm that their gripes still apply before continuing with the discussion? felipe@pcfelipe:supercollider% apt-cache

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do things like 1k (or more) interfaces. It

only servers pfff (Was: Re: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-13 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-13 10:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. The universal OS is only running on servers. Check. - -- brother

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread sean finney
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:56:23AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do things like 1k (or

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:11:27AM +0200, sean finney wrote: Did i miss the part where somebody explained what the user benefit of having network-manager on a server was? (apart from then it's the same as your desktop[1], anyway). I don’t even know why NM should be on a normal desktop. My

Re: only servers pfff (Was: Re: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-13 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/13/2011 10:56 AM, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: On 2011-04-13 10:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. The universal OS is only running on servers. Check. Get your facts

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:53:13 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:26:06AM +, Felipe Sateler wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:53:13 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. Surely a person managing a server can do

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 13/04/2011 10:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:42:43PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: On 13/04/2011 10:53, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:26:06 + (UTC), Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:53:13 +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges,

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Surely a person managing a server can do aptitude install ifupdown network-manager-? You appear to want to inflict extra work on large swathes of our users. If that is the case, I'd like to see some sort of justification for

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Bjørn Mork
Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net writes: The only thing that I miss from ifupdown (and I configured bonds, bridges and vlans) is a good IPv6 support. I can’t separately activate or deactivate IPv4 or IPv6 parts of an interface. I have seen several requests for this feature, but I

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-13 Thread Ben Finney
Jon Dowland j...@debian.org writes: Does the following assumption hold? Desktop users favour fewer prompts at install time and more sane default choices. Server users want fine control over the nuances of installation, but harness additional technologies/options to help with installations

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:11:38PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Installing NM by default will break systems which where running the last 12 years without flaws. No, it will not. It will not impact *running* systems at all. It will only impact newly installed systems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:18:38PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: This is Exacly what I mean with NM. I do not wan to be bothered with reading some hours documentations on how to tweek NM to work with my four 10GE NICs. And you wouldn't be - because, once again - you are not forced to

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Jon Dowland, Am 2011-04-11 10:37:54, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 02:11:38PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Installing NM by default will break systems which where running the last 12 years without flaws. No, it will not. It will not impact *running*

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
with the same set of misconceptions and misunderstandings. Please carefully read the thread again before re-iterating any more mistakes! This thread is talking about network-manager as default which is definitively no go. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
, that would lead to NM being installed by default on both cases. This thread is talking about network-manager as default which is definitively no go. *shrug* -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-07 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com: On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:51:08PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch 06 April 2011, 19:05:11 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Then you can stack all soft of

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Philip Hands, Am 2011-04-06 10:13:19, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I think this is the vital difference -- those that prefer ifupdown do so because they prefer to be in tight control of what is happening on their systems, whereas those that prefer NM don't want to be bothered about

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Hendrik Sattler, Am 2011-04-07 12:56:33, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I am also not totally happy about network-manager but I still use it as it gives me a working wireless network on my laptop without having to spend hours reading endless documentation and writing multiple

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Your limited knowledge is like jam. The less you have, the more you spread it. Well, you have just confirmed this statement. What you actually like about ifupdown is that it cannot do anything but extremely

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Brett Parker
On 06 Apr 09:10, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: Hello, On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Your limited knowledge is like jam. The less you have, the more you spread it. Well, you have just confirmed this statement. What you actually like about

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: ... and since it’s not event-based you have to hard-code the way your network is set up. I think this is the vital difference -- those that prefer ifupdown do so because they prefer to be in tight control of what is

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2011-04-05 20:37:39 +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:31:40 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: [About the general problem of documentation] The problem is to find the correct tools and the correct documentation. For instance, imagine

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-06 07:24:30 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: There are several hacks to do that (like guessnet or laptop-net), but I don’t think this can work correctly in the general case with IPv4. FYI, I had used laptop-net in the past, but it has been removed from Debian:

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:11:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-04-06 07:24:30 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: There are several hacks to do that (like guessnet or laptop-net), but I don’t think this can work correctly in the general case with IPv4. FYI, I had used laptop-net in

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-06 Thread Bjørn Mork
Brett Parker idu...@sommitrealweird.co.uk writes: Everything that you can do with ifupdown you can do with network manager, That's simply not true. You cannot use n-m remotely without having some out-of-band access. For a start. Fix that, and I'll come back with the next issue. You don't

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com (Sun Apr 3 12:37:26 2011): On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional replacement, I would question Debian's capacity to make technically excellent

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:40:43 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: That's not sufficient, because if a DHCP client is still running (e.g. because the previous configuration used DHCP), one needs to kill it before using a fixed IP address (in eth-home). If you do `ifdown`,

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Heiko Schlittermann h...@schlittermann.de wrote: Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com (Sun Apr  3 12:37:26 2011): On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-06 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-04-06T16:45:03+02:00 * Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Stanislav Maslovski stanislav.maslov...@gmail.com (Sun Apr 3 12:37:26 2011): On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional replacement, I would

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 02:08 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : Well, that is not the question of how many, that is the question of can you do a given task or not with a given tool. NM is limited in all possible ways I

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to work manually for your specific setup, and since it’s not event-based you have to

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 06 April 2011, 19:05:11 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to work manually for your specific setup, and since it’s not event-based

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-06 18:26:45 +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: If you do `ifdown`, either manually or by unplugging the cable, the problem doesn't appear to exist. Calling ifupdown may be inserted into the suspend/resume scripts. I wonder why this isn't done by default. -- Vincent Lefèvre

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:51:08PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch 06 April 2011, 19:05:11 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to work manually for your

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org [110404 14:05]: It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should have to read dozens of pages of documentation before attempting to do anything. You mix two things up here: Almost noone demands a system that is only configurable after

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:15:55AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link has been seen typing: But what many people[1] want is that you can make it work if you read some dozen pages of documentation. Personally, what I want is a setup that does not drop all active network interfaces during a

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do things like 1k (or more) interfaces. It also doesn't support hooks to

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-04 17:31:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:35:10PM +0530, Josselin Mouette wrote: It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should have to read dozens of pages of documentation before attempting to do anything. I’m happy

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-04-04 17:31:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:35:10PM +0530, Josselin Mouette wrote: It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should have to read dozens of pages

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:31:40 +0200 Vincent Lefevre vinc...@vinc17.net wrote: [About the general problem of documentation] The problem is to find the correct tools and the correct documentation. For instance, imagine the average user who wants for Ethernet (eth0), to do the following

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-04-05, Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: Of course, man guessnet. Just few lines. Last time I looked guessnet was orphaned, though. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 05.04.2011, 17:48 + schrieb Philipp Kern: On 2011-04-05, Andrew O. Shadoura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: Of course, man guessnet. Just few lines. Last time I looked guessnet was orphaned, though. but still very useful and allowing me to have a great network setup that,

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include hallo.h * Kelly Clowers [Mon, Apr 04 2011, 02:06:01PM]: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 07:29, Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk wrote: I don't consider myself 'stupid user', but I haven't yet been able to put my laptop on wpa network without the use of network manager. I never did get nm or

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 14:31 +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : For instance, imagine the average user who wants for Ethernet (eth0), to do the following automatically (for a laptop): 1. use some fixed IP address if there's some peer 192.168.0.1 with some given MAC address; There are

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 02:08 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : Well, that is not the question of how many, that is the question of can you do a given task or not with a given tool. NM is limited in all possible ways I can imagine, and also buggy. On the contrary, with ifupdown, one for

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
On 08:18 Mon 04 Apr , Raphael Hertzog wrote: RH Hi, RH On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Stupid scheme (intended for stupid users) should be based on ifupdown but shouldn't replace it. RH Please refrain from calling people stupid users just because they use a RH software that

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:52:33AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: On 08:18 Mon 04 Apr , Raphael Hertzog wrote: RH Hi, RH On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Stupid scheme (intended for stupid users) should be based on ifupdown but shouldn't replace it. RH Please refrain

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 00:00:01 -0700 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: There was a way User can do anything, the way was replaced by the way User can do something in list. Obviously that this action has been done for stupid users. Yes, a user can do anything with ifconfig if his time

Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:00:01AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:52:33AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Yes, a user can do anything with ifconfig if his time has no value. I am happily using network manager on my laptop, because unlike ifconfig it's easy to

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-04 Thread Rens Houben
In other news for Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:20:18PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi has been seen typing: Am 03.04.2011 18:22, schrieb Faidon Liambotis: And, above all, losing the network configuration, even for a second, just because you restarted a daemon (or that daemon died) shouldn't be

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 12:00:01AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 10:52:33AM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: On 08:18 Mon 04 Apr , Raphael Hertzog wrote: RH Hi, RH On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: Stupid scheme (intended for stupid users) should

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do things like 1k (or more) interfaces. It also doesn't support hooks to be able to do

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 01:11:15AM +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: Why on earth would I do that? It does not match my needs at all. For instance, this laptop sometimes connects to a couple of remote LANs through VPNs, so that I have to set up routing in a not completely trivial manner. I

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: There needs to be a simple tool with few dependencies and there needs to be a complex solution with all the power that some users need. One tool does not suit all here. It's not just about daemon vs GUI frontend or whether to use

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 04 avril 2011 à 11:55 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : Well, actually configuring a wireless network with wpa_supplicant and ifupdown is not hard at all and does not require too much time, _if_ a user has developed a good habbit of reading documentation first. It seems to be a

Re: Flaming as a way to reach technical quality? No! (was: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy))

2011-04-04 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:59:43PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: There needs to be a simple tool with few dependencies and there needs to be a complex solution with all the power that some users need. One tool does not suit all

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-04 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
Well, actually configuring a wireless network with wpa_supplicant and ifupdown is not hard at all and does not require too much time, _if_ a user has developed a good habbit of reading documentation first. JM It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should JM have to

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