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Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd



On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 19:07 +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:53:51PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > My understanding is that they recommend NetworkManager or ConnMan (which
> > are competitors, and fill a similar niche) for dynamic / mobile /
> > wireless situations; whereas systemd-networkd is intended to be more
> > like a competitor for ifupdown or equivalent, in simpler or more static
> > situations like "my server has two network cards with static IP
> > addresses" or "my NAS has one Ethernet socket which gets its address via
> > dhcp".
> 
> The overlap between n-m and systemd-networkd saddens me. n-m got
> support for team/bond interfaces, VLANs, etc a while ago and now we get
> to see yet another tool from systemd-* to redo this. I'm a big fan of
> many of systemd's features and interfaces but bundling everything
> into one systemd repo/package is going to hit us hard sooner or later
> if we can't standarize on a set of (e.g. DBus) interfaces.

Maybe there is a rescue out of this situation: uselessd :)
http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ a fork of systemd with only the basic
features.


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