RFC: new modes in network-manager 0.7 + ifupdown

[Alexander Sack]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:20:57PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 11:23:50AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > ti, 2008-10-07 kello 11:33 +0200, Alexander Sack kirjoitti:
> 
> > > For now, my personal preference is solution 2a). It does not disable
> > > ifup/ifdown completely, while it would prevent issues due to devices
> > > being accidentially/automatically managed my ifup/ifdown at startup.
> > 
> > "ifup -a" should (obviously) only be disabled if NM is running in
> > managed mode. Otherwise it is too difficult for a system (via init.d) or
> > user to bring up their network interfaces. They would have to bring them
> > up one by one, which can be quite tedious.
> 
> Right, thats what I am suggesting.

I uploaded this change now:

   ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu10

Please look out for any regressions or bugs so we can react swiftly in
case this causes problems/regressions.

 - Alexander