Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:03 -0300, Pablo Manuel Rizzo wrote:
> Hi, I would like to know if NM is recomended for servers with many
> network interfaces. I have some server and developer PCs width many
> network connections, I sometimes need to shutdown some connection and
> avoid it to come up again automatically on reboot (which seems to be
> the default NM behavior)

I'm not sure I'd put NM on a production server yet, but NM 0.7 does
support multiple active interfaces with static IP addresses, if your
distribution has a system settings plugin.  Currently Fedora and
OpenSUSE have system settings plugins and others will hopefully be along
soon.

> Where can I found detailed configuration documentation?

If your distro has a system settings plugin, you should be able to use
your normal distro config tools (for example, system-config-network GUI
tool or a text editor on /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 on
Fedora) and NM will just pick up that configuration.

Dan