Re: Is NetworkManager ready for servers with may interfaces?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 14:17 -0700, Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> On Sun, 4 May 2008, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Ubuntu/Debian doesn't have a native plugin yet, but you can use the
> > KeyFile plugin if you like.
> 
> Thanks. (It's becoming obvious I couldn't have just scraped up an Ubuntu
> NM 0.7 up on my own w/o a lot of help.)
> 
> My next stop was to grab some of the "rogue" .debs out there I've seen
> for NM 0.7.X and disassemble one- take it apart, see the installed files
> and the scripts then duplicate what I can.
> 
> > You just won't get integration with the distro config tools and
> > whatnot, since the KeyFile plugin is a completely new config format.
> 
> I hate to keep asking silly questions, but which/what distro config
> tools won't I able to integrate with, and will that be a problem if I
> just use NM to manage my interfaces?

Not sure about Debian, but on Fedora it would be system-config-network +
ifup/ifdown, on SUSE it would be YAST + ifup + ifdown, and on Ubuntu it
would be whatever config tool gets run when you do System ->
Administration -> Networking or something like that.

If you just use NM to manage your connections, then no, you do not care
about this :)

Dan