On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 11:31:30 AM Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:30:50PM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > And rip it out by the roots. NetworkManager is a bad tool in any
> > production environment, even if it's useful for traveling laptops and
> > as an auto-detect tool at OS installation time.

> Agreed. Yet another "works great on the author's laptop" product. It's main feature
> is to stop the network when the user logs out. Great for servers.

It is where upstream is going, like it or not.  It won't stop the network if that connection is set up as a 'system wide' one.  And it was originated by the upstream vendor, not just some random user somewhere.

> Yes, I did so, but I do not see the usual GUI. system-config-network starts some
> kind of erzatzprodukt text ui. Where is the old GUI?

It's gone.  At least on my RHEL6 personal box there is only the TUI version of system-config-network; no GUI.  The GUI network config tools are all for NetworkManager in upstream EL6.

For the incompatability you mention, see upstream's bugzilla at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688845

Comment on that bug, or file your own BZ upstream; that's the way to get this fixed long-term.  There's not a lot of help in that bug, incidentally, but comment on it anyway.