[Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

Tue Jun 5 23:41:15 CEST 2012

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 10:44:31PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+> Le 05/06/2012 16:20, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+> >Also, with latest NetworkManager, it seems you can do pretty advanced
+> >network configurations (lacks UI). The UI is planned for GNOME 3.6.
+> >However, seems that loads of Mageia users have issues with
+> >NetworkManager, so not sure what to do. Perhaps safer to wait a year and
+> >hope that other distributions solve the bugs?
+> Approximatively 50% of those problems come from the coexistence with
+> drakxtools and sysinit, conflicting for the control of the
+> interface, rather than actual problems in NM code. Waiting for them
+> to magically disapear won't help much...
+
+Ah ok, but shouldn't that all be fixed now that the patch is back to
+make NetworkManager properly ignore stuff that it should ignore?
+
+meaning: only look for USE_NM/NM_CONTROLLED (I forgot which), not demand
+more than that.
+
+
+But ideally it would be nice if there was only one way to setup a
+network.. and for me that means NetworkManager :). But drakxtools was
+more advanced IIRC, so first NetworkManager needs to get more advanced,
+more documentation, etc.
+
+Cool possibilities with just NetworkManager:
+http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking
+
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677148:
+(all one bugzilla.gnome.org, seem duplicates, but there is a bug per
+ product, so bug for maybe gnome-control-center, gnome-shell, etc)
+
+677144: network: make sure bridged devices are handled
+677145: network: make sure bridged devices are handled
+677146: network: make sure bonded devices are handled
+677147: network: make sure bonded devices are handled
+677148: network: make sure vlans are handled
+677149: network: make sure vlans are handled
+677150: network: make sure ipoib is handled
+677151: network: make sure ipoib is handled
+
+I had to lookup what ipoib (IP over infiniband) meant, article is here:
+http://www.ietf.org/wg/concluded/ipoib.html
+
+
+GNOME shell specific:
+https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677142: multiple nics (NM can
+handle it, GNOME shell not)
+  677142: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok
+  677143: network: make sure multiple nics are handled ok
+
+Note: The support is in NetworkManager. The GNOME bugs are to ensure it
+is shown/exposed in the UI properly. Not sure if available in stuff like
+KNetworkManager, but NM is not specific to GNOME.
+
+All bugs above are really server like things. I thought drakxtools still
+was better at setting up Wifi; and I think that is more important to get
+right than vlan/bridging/etc.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+