-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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).
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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJazPCKAAoJEGSXLIzRJwiFOn4IAK3aE7fenfGdje7FL7eL01ej 1XzAL9rlyCnoxREnqQ49sGeY/mNV/+9+XwPWImvaJvcHHBEuH/Cmr1e5nJikcpPW jbuhcf5CUqzsfYPSJzQuZKL+GkQvaWeLXPhnIQpoOKuCq6/7Sfg/SlD8OCkPqhLw qsdToiT3cP5GWL+nzV55qg/mBGm5H/eAAwWbUmSI5Z+BfzcaVcHrxkljwqAs5pZU Qze77fT9+vKTWzStuEel3HgE+jbmItU+cnmrjRzo69JNhhHzrt5iBC+E9DixWV0I Y9QrwG0g/Idk5r/IAXcUPJ4ah1gHrsXB+X4zeyi7R6kbfgVlFB0vlQ4MWegAhMU= =MKcc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org