On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
This may be fine for users that don't know what they are doing or don't have a stable networking environment, but I have found for me it causes nothing but heartache. The first thing I do is disable it.
The sad part is that it makes us not understand what is really happening with our systems and when something doesn't work we have no idea where to look.
I have been using UNIX/BSD/Linux since the mid eighties and hate where things appear to be going - looking more and more like Windows.
There are two sides to this. On the one hand you want to be able to nail down server configurations - and probably anything that is going to stay wired. On the other, you can't possibly have liked what you had to do to add a new network (or any other) device to a BSD system in the 80's and it is kind of nice to plug in a usb device and have it come up working without a reboot. I think the real issue is that the way to nail things down either hasn't stabilized or isn't well documented. For example, I think there are ways to tell NM not to mess with a specific interface setting, and maybe a way to say you don't want it to screw up your resolv.conf file, but can you tell it that adding a USB device and picking up a dchp address is OK, but you don't want to change your default route just because dhcp offers it?