On Thursday, April 26, 2012 02:12:20 PM Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu> wrote: > >> Yes, that's a horrible thing for servers. > > I've said it before, and I'll say it again: enterprise != servers. > How's that? A distribution being an 'enterprise' distribution does not equate with that distribution being an (exclusively) 'server' distribution. While CentOS makes a great server distribution, that is a subset of what an enterprise distribution needs to be able to do. And I've not had any NetworkManager issues with my upstream EL6.2 box running a local GUI, xrdp and vnc, some reverse ssh tunnels for remote maintenance of some dynamically addressed, behind-the-NAT boxes, among other things (development CMS/web serving, CIFS shares, and more, including a test OpenNMS instance). Multiple NICs, multiple subnets, and solid as a rock with nailed up addresses, running with NetworkManager. I've thus far not seen any of the issues others have seen, once I remembered to set up networking at install, and remembered the two checkboxes to check (which I've posted before on this list).