On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:25 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > Simply put, network is meant to turn on/off devices that are staticly > configured. NetworkManager on the other hand is meant to turn on/off > devices that are dynamically configured. Simply put, that's wrong. The network service can handle devices with static and dynamic addresses. It's been that way for years. Here, on my LAN, there's a mixture of static and DHCP server configured computers, and only one laptop is using NetworkManager, the rest are all using the network service. What "network" is not good at, is handling changing devices automatically. Such as unplugging from one network and plugging into another. Or unplugging and then using wireless, or vice versa. Usually, some sort of manual intervention is required. It's for that situation that NetworkManger excels. NetworkManager can also handle static addressing, though that's a newer feature to it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
