On 10/9/07, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I see that there is a proposal to make NM (Network Manager) > a standard feature of Fedora-8, replacing system-config-network > in its various forms. Just to trading stories a bit: I went on a one month vacation, and had previously been advised to use NetworkManager on a wired network setup where there may be short term network loss - since NetworkManager would manage things for me. 2/3 of the month through, and thousands of miles away, the machine stopped responding... I thought it had overheated (I turned of the AC). When I got back, after hours of looking around, I found out that NetworkManager simply wasn't picking up a newly assigned dynamic IP from my ISP for some wierd reason - I could see in the logs dhclient getting the IP, but NetworkManager was ignoring it and using some apperently random IP instead. Unfortunately I was too upset with it to find out why, and just removed the thing. I was later told that I should have used NetworkManager on a wired network anyways. I have been since jaded against NetworkManager... this was in FC6. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com )
