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NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

Posted Jun 25, 2009 18:04 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

> Dan Williams discusses the advantages of NetworkManager over ofono and ConnMan on his blog.

Well, not really. He is rather refuting some NetworkManager bashing.


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NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

Posted Jun 26, 2009 2:29 UTC (Fri) by russell (subscriber, #10458) [Link]

Some of Dan's claimed features such as "integration" have never worked on fedora. I keep trying with each release but...

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=491449

without this, a system wide connection seems impossible ( which is ridiculous ). How is ntpd, sshd, etc suppose work without anyone logged in?

NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:13 UTC (Fri) by cyperpunks (subscriber, #39406) [Link]

Even better if you need net to login (e.g. NIS or LDAP auth)...

How hard can it be to understand that if you have put a network cable into the machine you want to have network connection?

NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

Posted Jul 6, 2009 13:55 UTC (Mon) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532670 for an example of why we've had to remove NM from most of the desktops at my company.

NetworkManager and ConnMan (Dan Williams' Blog)

Posted Jun 26, 2009 11:01 UTC (Fri) by dcbw (guest, #50562) [Link]

People still wanted a way to make NetworkManager ignore an interface. That's what happened in that bug. NM_CONTROLLED=no was set in the ifcfg file, and thus NM ignores the interface just like the user requested.

Were NM_CONTROLLED not present or "yes", NM would be able to control that interface and bring it up before login.

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