Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-16 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/02/2020 à 17:50, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : In the end, the problem is that NetworkManager, FirewallD, and other 'automatic' helpers are 'part' of the OS.. and while it was easy to tear them out in earlier versions.. as time goes on it is not. For a car analogy, it was much easier to c

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-15 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:55 AM Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > > On servers though, one of the first post-installation steps I performed > was to > get rid of Network-Manager and all its components. The servers I'm working > on > are relatively small-scale and have from one to four ne

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On 2020-02-13 10:50, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:40, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link detectio

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:53:41PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > I just came to the same conclusion. So it looks like I'll have to > catch up and do some RTFM on NetworkManager, FirewallD (which I've > replaced by a handcrafted iptables script) and Chrony (replaced by > ntpd). Whatever your views

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 13/02/2020 à 17:50, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : In the end, the problem is that NetworkManager, FirewallD, and other 'automatic' helpers are 'part' of the OS.. and while it was easy to tear them out in earlier versions.. as time goes on it is not. For a car analogy, it was much easier to c

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 11:40, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > > I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager > > is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link > > detection and activation/deactivation, a dispatch

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-13 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/02/2020 à 14:11, Jonathan Billings a écrit : I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link detection and activation/deactivation, a dispatch service on link activation/deactivation, support for bringing up

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:29:29PM +0100, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > As much as I love CentOS (been using it since 4.x), some days I just miss > the bone-headed approach of Slackware and FreeBSD. Just edit > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf or /etc/rc.conf and you're done. Nothing is stopping you from creatin

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 11/02/2020 à 16:27, Stephen John Smoogen a écrit : 1. Red Hat is a company of 14,000 people many of which have diverging views on how things should be run and why. This means that you may see 4-5 different tools to fix a problem all of which solve the part that they were originally developed f

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 08:17, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:12 AM Jonathan Billings > wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > > Unfortunately, instead of fixing/refactoring the whole bash networking > > > script mess, anot

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 08:17:18AM -0500, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I thought that systemd was under redhat, so I am confused why > they would not be pushing it instead of networkmanager. Am I missing > something? systemd has several Red Hat employees working on systemd, I believe, but it's

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 8:12 AM Jonathan Billings wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > > Unfortunately, instead of fixing/refactoring the whole bash networking > > script mess, another new project was started instead, called > > systemd-networkd :-)

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-11 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > Thanks for confirming that NetworkManager is not the solution for > everyone. To me it seems that NetworkManager was developed by laptop users > for laptop users and that's why it is what it is today. Useful for > laptops/de

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Hi Nicolas, > > [snip] > >> Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory >> from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this >> list. > > Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On 09/02/2020 23:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi Nicolas, [snip] > Maybe there's a reason to make NetworkManager more or less mandatory > from now on, but I don't see it. So I thought I'd rather ask on this list. Like you, I read about NetworkManager becoming the default tool for CentOS 8. So I sa

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen John Smoogen said: > The reason is that having 1 way to configure networks makes it so the > developer and tech support only have to diagnose issues from 1 set of tools > versus two different ones (and occasionally 2 competing ones if both are > trying to do their job at

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-10 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 02:55, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently reading the upstream "Considerations in adopting RHEL 8" > document. The chapter about networking states that traditional networking > scripts (shipped with the network-scripts package) are considered obsolete. > > I blun

[CentOS] NetworkManager on servers

2020-02-09 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently reading the upstream "Considerations in adopting RHEL 8" document. The chapter about networking states that traditional networking scripts (shipped with the network-scripts package) are considered obsolete. I bluntly admit I don't see the point in this. As far as I'm concern