[Mageia-dev] NetworkManager vs initscripts

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 28/11/12 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
> On 11/28/2012 08:23 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28. November 2012 14.17, Frank Griffin wrote:
>>> NM doesn't need ifcfg files
>> But udev or some other proccess does. My point was to add the line to
>> the ifcfg files in order to prevent the other proccesses from fighting
>> with NM for controll over the network interfaces, when the interface
>> is beeing setup with NM.
>>
>>
> It's kind of backwards.  NM expects to be in control of everything by
> default rather than to coexist with initscripts.  If it was, there'd be
> no ifcfg files.  If it sees an ifcfg file and it contains
> NM_CONTROLLED=NO, then it leaves the interface alone.
> 
> At the time udev runs, it doesn't have any way to know that an interface
> is controlled by NM unless someone has created an ifcfg file with
> NM_CONTROLLED=YES.  With no file there, creating a file containing YES
> would be useless because with no file there at all, NM will grab the
> interface anyway.
> 
> It's sort of a catch-22.  udev is assuming that ifplugd is the default
> because on MGA3 that is true.  NM is assuming that *it* is the default
> because that's how it was designed.

I thought the default had flipped to being "if the NM_CONTROLLED does
not exist, then assume it's true" before mga2 came out.

I'm maybe mis-remembering tho'. Blino can you correct me??

Col

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