Re: bug or "feature" ??

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:54 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>   
> > I notice that if I stop the NetworkManager service:
> >     /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop
> > that the interfaces started by NetworkManager are not always stopped.
> >
> > Note: this is a F12 qemu-kvm guest with multiple (two) NICs defined.
> >
> > Bug or "feature"??
> >     
>
> Feature.  It allows you to do 'service NetworkManager restart' and have
> the connection survive.  This is implemented for wired static and DHCP
> interfaces only and was requested quite a few times by people who run
> headless servers where you may need to update NM on-the-fly and not be
> kicked out when doing so.  It's also necessary for NM to seamlessly take
> over a connection from the initrd where the rootfs is network mounted.
>
> Dan
>
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Why would anyone use NM on a server or on a diskless node?
(Just wondering...)