Re: NM does not completely handle default route

[Gene Czarcinski <gene czarc net>]

On Sunday 11 October 2009 16:44:56 Robert Vogelgesang wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:12:05PM -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> > See the attached patch in another email.  My choice of parameter/option
> > is NM_NEVER_DEFAULT= for devices/NICs/connections that should never be
> > the default route.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > The code/logic change to use NM_ALLOWDEFAULT= rather than what I used
> > (NM_NEVER_DEFAULT_=) should be minor if that is preferred.
> 
> I don't really care either if it'll be NEVERDEFAULT or ALLOWDEFAULT.
> 
> But why be so humble and prefix this option with "NM_"?  I'd rather avoid
> anything that could keep others (i. e. system-config-network and the
> networking init scripts) from using this option/concept; they could
> benefit from this as well.  ;-)

Efforts today seem to be in NetworkManager rather than manual "expert" stuff 
like system-config-network.  

Anyway, the patch is a "proposed patch" ... fine tuning by the developers.

Gene