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<H1>[Mageia-dev] NetworkManager vs initscripts</H1>
<B>Colin Guthrie</B>
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<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 28/11/12 13:33 did gyre and gimble:
><i> On 11/28/2012 08:23 AM, Johnny A. Solbu wrote:
</I>>><i> On Wednesday 28. November 2012 14.17, Frank Griffin wrote:
</I>>>><i> NM doesn't need ifcfg files
</I>>><i> But udev or some other proccess does. My point was to add the line to
</I>>><i> the ifcfg files in order to prevent the other proccesses from fighting
</I>>><i> with NM for controll over the network interfaces, when the interface
</I>>><i> is beeing setup with NM.
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</I>><i> It's kind of backwards. NM expects to be in control of everything by
</I>><i> default rather than to coexist with initscripts. If it was, there'd be
</I>><i> no ifcfg files. If it sees an ifcfg file and it contains
</I>><i> NM_CONTROLLED=NO, then it leaves the interface alone.
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</I>><i> At the time udev runs, it doesn't have any way to know that an interface
</I>><i> is controlled by NM unless someone has created an ifcfg file with
</I>><i> NM_CONTROLLED=YES. With no file there, creating a file containing YES
</I>><i> would be useless because with no file there at all, NM will grab the
</I>><i> interface anyway.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's sort of a catch-22. udev is assuming that ifplugd is the default
</I>><i> because on MGA3 that is true. NM is assuming that *it* is the default
</I>><i> because that's how it was designed.
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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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