Citeren Neil Rickert <nrickert@ameritech.net>:
On 04/10/2018 05:16 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
"IF laptop AND NetworkManager is being installed THEN use NetworkManager, ELSE wicked"
Looking through the other replies, I see that one "benefit" of NetworkManager has not been mentioned.
If I have, say, Leap 42.3, Leap 15.0 Beta and Tumbleweed all installed on different partitions (and I do), and they all use "NetworkManager", then my computer will have three different IPv6 addresses, depending on which OS is currently running. And the dns_masq service running on the LAN router will know all three of those. So if I want to SSH into that box from another system on LAN, I can sit back and relax while it times out on two of those IPv6 addresses, before it eventually finds the one that works.
If all three were to use "wicked", life would be boring for they would all have the same IPv6 address (derived partly from MAC address).
Wicked apparently defaults to using a MAC based IPv6 address and NetworkManager a privacy address (that isn't based on a MAC address). If having a consistent address is important to you, switch privacy off in NetworkManager and you'll get a MAC based IPv6 address too or use DHCPv6 for IPv6 address configuration (supported by both wicked and NetworkManager).
GNOME expects NetworkManager by default and shows a rather unpleasant error when loading up the settings screen without it.[1]
Clearly, this is a Gnome bug. It is not up to Gnome to decide how the network is managed.
Okay, I'm just giving my two cents. I can live with whatever is adopted. Right now, using "wicked", I am having to statically define the IPv4 address for both Leap 15.0 and Tumbleweed (but not for 42.3). That's reported as bug 1080832, which has not received any loving attention.
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