On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 16:16 -0500, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Dan Williams wrote: > > >> Note that at least fedora already has a mechanism for that via the > >> initscripts. > >> So networkmanager should only offer to up/down those settings/interfaces. > > > > I'd rather support that natively. > > I'd rather all my tools like system-config-network-tui still work when nm is > being used.
We are working towards that. Eventually ifup/ifdown will poke NM to do the right thing for connections that are controlled by NM. > > NM should automatically interpret and handle whatever ifcfg files there > > are for 6to4, but the support should be native so that other distros can > > benefit as well. > > Sure. just if the user changes it, I hope the corresponding ifcfg files are > updated as well so other tools don't break. Current release of > system-config-network-tui is already broken on RHEL for not supporting the > various ipv6 options the initscripts support. I'd rather not make it worse. Yup, the ifcfg-rh plugin should already do that for connections supported by NetworkManager. system-config-network is not being actively developed anymore with new features; effort is being directed into nm-connection-editor instead. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list