RFC: new modes in network-manager 0.7 + ifupdown

[Alexander Sack]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:53:51AM +1100, Jamie Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 18:19 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 05:04:28PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 17:05 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > > Yes, thats right and I thought about that case before.
> > > > 
> > > > The right solution would use nm-tool or some handcrafted D-Bus calls
> > > > to detect whether NM is running in managed mode or not. That should be
> > > > fairly simple and is certainly something we should look into for
> > > > jaunty.
> > > 
> > > Um, forgive my ignorance, but when "ifup -a" is run at boot is the
> > > system bus going to be running?
> > 
> > Right ;) ... so the right solution has yet to be explored. My guess is
> > that we won't find a perfect solution until we reached the point where
> > we can completely replace ifupdown.
> 
> replace ifupdown ?? with what ?
> 
> If you mean network-manager, I think it's time for me to prepare a
> migration strategy for my Ubuntu servers. That may be all fine and dandy
> for systems that are happy to use dhcp, but it's caused me nothing but
> pain on systems that need static addressing.

Nobody is talking about replacing ifupdown for servers ;).

 - Alexander