On 04/30/2014 10:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I agree that WiFi networking is difficult, but ethernet networking, in my experience, is 99.9% stable.
Sure is; but we do bonding for a reason.
I wish NM would just stick to WiFi.
There are other interfaces, like various VPN's and WWAN cards, where NM's notion that non-bootup connections belong to users is a useful thing.
I haven't come across any documents that explain clearly how NM is meant to be working, or eg what documents it is reading.
The upstream documentation has some info; the man pages (nm-applet(1), nm-connection-editor(1), nm-online(1), nm-tool(1), nmcli(1), NetworkManager.conf(5), nm-system-settings.conf(5), and NetworkManager(8) all have useful information. I'm sure it could be improved, but so far it's been useful to me. I should probably edit my initial sentence to 'NetworkManage is fairly well documented' instead, I guess.
I find the NM messages on /var/log/messages ludicrously verbose; and even after wading through these messages it is difficult to determine exactly what is wrong. In my view NM should spend a little time trying to make these messages more helpful.
Agreed. They're almost as opaque as SELinux avc denials.