On 4/27/23 01:29, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 4/26/23 01:21, Simon Lees wrote:
If wicked is gone from 15.5, I shall return, asking about how to replace NetworkManager with networkd :D
SUSE won't make a breaking change like that in a service pack so its safe to presume it will be around for the Leap 15.X series but not anything after.
Out of curiosity, why is Wicked being dropped? Will NetworkManager be able to completely replace it? If not, what? I'm thinking about configuring server networking with possibly lots of static interfaces, including bonding and jumbo frames.
Some history, when systemd was first introduced many people especially on servers were using ifup/down but that didn't integrate with systemd, mainly there was no way to start services once the network was up. NetworkManager was still seen as a very heavy weight solution for this and so Wicked was created. Fast forward 10 years and Networking has got more complex containers have become more popular and in the Linux world outside of SUSE people seem to have generally forgotten there concerns around Network Managers resource usage (It might have got better as well) and are now all using it as the default. Where as SUSE based systems are the only ones using Wicked. So dropping Wicked for network manager is just part of SUSE trying to remove unneeded differences between SUSE and other Enterprise distros. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B