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- NetworkManager consists of two parts: one is on the system level daemon that
- manages the connections and gathers information about new networks. The other
- is a systray applet that users can use to interact with the NetworkManager
- daemon.
-
- Managed vs. Unmanaged mode and /etc/network/interfaces
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Devices listed in /etc/network/interfaces _will_ be managed by NetworkManager
- unless the ifupdown system-config-setting is enabled and is setup to run
- in "Unmanaged mode".
-
- Note: in ubuntu/intrepid "Unmanaged mode" will be the default, but that is likely
- to change in one of the following releases.
-
- The config to select unmanaged/managed mode is in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf:
-
- [ifupdown]
- managed=true/false
-
- Unmanaged mode will make NetworkManager not touch any wired/wireless device matching
- an interface name configured in /etc/network/interfaces.
-
- Managed mode will make NetworkManager manage all devices and will make NetworkManager
- honour all dhcp and static configurations for wired and wireless devices.
-
- The default mode shipped in Ubuntu/intrepid is "unmanaged".
-
- After modifying /etc/NetworkManager/nm-systems-settings.conf _or_ /etc/network/interfaces
- you may want to restart the system-settings daemon using the command:
- "sudo killall nm-system-settings" to apply those changes.
-
-
- Dial-up configuration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Your dialup configurations can now be one in network-manager connection editor.
- Because of that /etc/network/interfaces configurations are considered "legacy" from
- a network manager point of view.
-
- However, if you want to use your /etc/network/interfaces configuration make sure that
- you have the ifupdown plugin in "Unmanaged mode" and take care that the used
- wired/wireless device is also configured in /etc/network/interfaces.
-
- Not that NetworkManager 0.7 will not provive UI hooks to up and down ppp connections
- managed outside of NetworkManager itself (not that it ever worked nicely before).
-
- -- Alexander Sack <asac@ubuntu.com>, Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:05:00 +0200
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