[Mageia-dev] NetworkManager vs initscripts

Tue Dec 4 02:29:12 CET 2012

On 12/03/2012 07:12 PM, JA Magallón wrote:
+>
+> To get the most 'pure' NM setup I could, I did this:
+> - disabled the ifcfg-rh plugin in NM.conf, just keyfile
+> - configured the network via nm-connection-editor, stored system wide
+>   in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
+> - creaed a dummy ifcfg-eth0 file with
+>     DEVICE=eth0
+>     NM_CONTROLLED=yes
+>  lines. No network info in there...just dummy file for initscripts to 
+> ignore it,
+>  as udev will be trying to create it with DHCP setup if not present...
+>
+> Perhaps GUI toos and installer could do this also, if user wants the 
+> interface
+> to be managed by NM. Perhaps it is time to deprecate ifcfg-rh and 
+> create native
+> files for NM...
+Yes, the problem at the moment is coordination between udev and 
+drakconnect and NM.  The present policy is that NM will *not* be the 
+default, which is why udev creates the ifcfg files.
+
+NM is designed to assume that it is in charge of all interfaces. The 
+only concession to coexistence with ifplugd is that if an ifcfg exists 
+*and* it has NM_CONTROLLED=NO, then NM will not try to control the 
+interface.  Conversely, if ifplugd finds that an ifcfg exists *and* it 
+has NM_CONTROLLED=YES, then it will ignore it.
+
+For total coordination between all of these, udev, drakconnect, and 
+ifplugd would have to look for and check /etc/NetworkManager.conf to 
+determine whether NM was active and whether it was paying any attention 
+to ifcfg files.  That would determine whether ifplugd would attept to 
+control any interfaces at all, and whether drakconnect would even try to 
+build ifcfg files for them.
+
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