Re: Fedora 7

[Dennis Gilmore <dennis ausil us>]

On Thursday 04 January 2007 8:59 pm, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) (netmask webset net) said:
> > #1 - Having some *very* easy way to switch between NetworkManager and
> > regular 'ifup'. I know SUSE has something similar: you just go into
> > their network configuration tool and select a radio box (Use NM / Use
> > ifup). It would be cool for laptop users that roam a lot (like me). If
> > there is nobody available to work on that, I would be glad to if you
> > point me the directions on whom should I coordinate with.
>
> I'm not sure this is the right answer - it's certainly the wrong
> question to be asking the user in general. For the cases that NM hits
> now, we'd want to fix any cases that would cause people to want to switch
> to ifup, at least.
I think the right Answer is to make NM cover all cases.  where you don't  need 
to go to other tools.   I use entirely NM.  but i could see instances  where 
i need to choose between multiple static wired configs  that NM may not be 
the easiest tool to use. 

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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
Proud Australian