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Re: network manager questions
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 9 Apr 2012 09:31:39 -0700
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On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:40:02AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
>
> ... and the current NetworkManager doesn't handle many production server networking tasks,
> so upstream left the existing mechanism in place so choice is available.
>

No, they have not. In SL6, they have removed the old graphical system-config-network tool,
so either use nm-connection-editor or vi.

(The new system-config-network is a text-mode gui with every useful function of the old tool
removed, except for the most trivial ones. For example one cannot remove the binding of
network interfaces to specific mac addresses helpfully created by the SL installer
to ensure that your system stops working if you replace the network card or the motherboard
or move the disks to a spare chassis).

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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
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