nick black <dankamong...@gmail.com> writes: > what > does NetworkManager offer that makes it superior to > systemd-networkd on the desktop
I don't know what systemd-networkd has to offer in this regard, but for laptop usage I'm personally fond of the ModemManager integration along with multihoming policies (eth0 preferred over wlan0 preferred over wwan0 by default). For the same reason I believe conman should not be default on any hardware with a built-in modem, regardless of desktop choice. For servers I agree with others here - I'm slowly migrating to systemd-networkd. Makes stuff like DHCPv6-PD much easier to manage for example. I've been a happy ifupdown user for ages, but now I believe it's time to move on... A standalone dhcp client is still important to me for one specific use case: testing and debugging of DHCP services. Been using the ISC client a lot for this, both for IPv4 and for different DHCPv6 modes. I guess the busybox client is a good enough replacement for v4. Not sure about DHCPv6. The advantages of the ISC client for this use case has been the terminal debug output and the scripting abilities, where you also could use "/usr/bin/env" as "script" to dump all the vars. Bjørn