Laptop Networking, NetworkManager, ifupdown ---> Merge them?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:32:39PM -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:

> I've begun looking over:
> 
>  cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co NetworkManager
> 
> ... and thinking about it's design architecture and how that relates to
> Debian's wonderful (and perhaps under appreciated and under extended)
> 'ifupdown' package.

This was the subject of one of the BOF sessions at the Ubuntu conference
(which is still in progress).  Some brief notes are available here:

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/NetworkMagic

NetworkManager seems to have gone in some questionable directions recently,
and it seems unlikely that we will adopt it at this time.

> My proposal is this:  Adopt NetworkManager, but not until the ifupdown
> functionality is rolled into it.  Let NetworkManager fully manage the
> interfaces, but have it do the full deal that ifupdown does now.
> (uh,... libifupdown.so ?)  That could conceivably become the backend for
> all distros.

This does not seem to be where it is headed, but perhaps there is still
hope.  We will be watching it.

-- 
 - mdz