starting Fedora Server SIG

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Nov 14 21:51:14 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:52 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 01:24 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >>> How is NM-dispatcher a developer service? Similarly, nm-tool is
> >>> at least quicker than 'ip addr ls ; ip route ls ; cat /etc/resolv.conf'.
> >>
> >> and ifconfig -a works on multiple platforms, so it's the one that will
> >> win.
> >
> > ifconfig -a doesn't show all the information if you're doing multiple
> > addresses on an adapter.
> 
> it doesn't show binding but it will show virtual interfaces, eth0:1, etc.

Use /sbin/ip already :)  AFAIK virtual interfaces are completely
obsoleted by mutiple addresses per interface, which /sbin/ip (via
netlink) makes entirely available.

Is there some reason the ethX:X configuration is desirable over just
adding multiple addresses to the interface?

dan


> but that's a side issue...
> 
> 
> > Let me change the wording of your argument a little...
> >
> > "Look, for the desktop in particular Linux makes a lot of sense, I am
> > not arguing otherwise.
> >
> > For the server it is a solution looking for a problem.  Solaris works
> > just fine thank you very much."
> >
> > It's *exactly* the arguments I heard with switching out Solaris stuff
> > when I was at NCSU.
> 
> Interesting, when I was in the same situation at duke the arguments I 
> heard was that linux wasn't tested enough and open source software wasn't 
> supported. It had nothing to do with it being too featureful. The 
> featureset b/t solaris servers and linux servers in 1999 were almost 
> identical. Most of the tools were actually the SAME CODE.
> 
> 
> >
> > One of the things about progress and getting to a more mature *platform*
> > that is suitable across a wide range of uses is change.  I'm not saying
> > that NetworkManager is perfect yet for the server needs.  But having
> > people that want to run a server say "pound sand, go the hell away, we
> > don't want to run your new-fangled stuff" doesn't help us get to where
> > it is.  Maintaining two systems in parallel is very much a long-run
> > losing position.
> 
> I think you're confused as to what I'm saying. You're hoisting up this 
> straw man that's neo-luddite and that's not me.
> 
> I think I'm tired of both of these perspectives:
>   'ALL NEW IS GOOD'
>   'ALL NEW IS BAD'
> 
> I'd like a bit more of:
>   "not all this new shit works and some of it should not have been started"
>   "sometimes you do have to throw one away"
> 
> And finally a bit more patience that changing systems which have been in 
> place for over a decade is going to cause some angst. That angst can be 
> minimized if the response to it is not so vehement and impatient. We have 
> a lot of vocal people who seem to think any resistance to change means you 
> want nothing to change. And we have a lot of vocal people who seem to 
> think that rethinking how we're doing thing is akin to heresy.
> 
> It's just not that simple.
> 
> -sv
> 




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