On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Simon Matter via CentOS wrote: > Thanks for confirming that NetworkManager is not the solution for > everyone. To me it seems that NetworkManager was developed by laptop users > for laptop users and that's why it is what it is today. Useful for > laptops/desktops and simple server setups. I've mentioned on this list countless times about how NetworkManager is actually pretty good for a general server. Automatic link detection and activation/deactivation, a dispatch service on link activation/deactivation, support for bringing up secondary interfaces after a primary goes up, a dbus interface for automation, etc. > Unfortunately, instead of fixing/refactoring the whole bash networking > script mess, another new project was started instead, called > systemd-networkd :-) Actually, I'm sad that RHEL/CentOS 8 doesn't support systemd-networkd. It's really nice, especially for really pared down systems that don't need a lot of extra services like NetworkManager. But I understand that Red Hat needs to focus its support efforts. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>