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Re: Can we get rid of network-manager?



El jue, 24-02-2011 a las 11:03 +0100, Mike Gabriel escribió:
> Hi Klaus,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2011, 00:37:45 schrieb Klaus Knopper:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > However, I found that another way of avoiding conflicts between
> > NetworkManager and ifup/ifdown is possible by just making NetworkManager
> > aware of everything preconfigured in /etc/network/interfaces, and
> > actually using this file for NetworkManagers configuration handling, by
> > setting:
> > 
> > [main]
> > plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
> > 
> > [ifupdown]
> > managed=true
> 
> I haven't know these before... This sounds handy.
>  
> My default network manager configuration though only gets activated after user 
> login. Does a nm configuration as you propose enable network before the user 
> logs in?
> 
> So basically, the point about network manager is: do we need network access 
> before the user logs (YES: for NFS etc.) and how can this be handled by 
> network manager...
> 


Replacing it with wicd (you can also use its scripts/preconnect or
postconnect hooks to do anything you need prior or after getting an ip
address)

Regards.
José L.

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