Re: Stopping NetworkManager without taking the interface down.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 12:02 +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:24:44PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, but probably not before 0.8 I think.  I believe it would require
> > quite a bit of coding and architecting to ensure that it's not an
> > un-manageable hack.
> 
> OK, I understand that (though I hoped that we could have this once we
> support for multiple interfaces).

Well, this is somewhat orthogonal to multiple active devices.  Which is
both good and bad.

> So do you advice distributors to not restart NetworkManager on upgrade
> and defer this until reboot? Is that the way fedora is (not-)dealing
> with this issue too?

Yes, I think that's appropriate for the moment.

Dan