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devrate

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Registered: 2019-09-14

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Removing/purging Network Manager

What are the inconveniences if I remove/purge Network Manager?

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: Removing/purging Network Manager

I have no idea.
I don't use it;
I just use plain ifupdown configurations, plus wpagui on some hosts.
I think of that as easy and straight-forward.
In particular, it's well documented.

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: Removing/purging Network Manager

Hello:

... use plain ifupdown configurations ...
... easy and straight-forward.
.. well documented.

+1
For me it was a huge step forward.

Best,

A.

steve_v

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Registered: 2018-01-11

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Re: Removing/purging Network Manager

What are the inconveniences if I remove/purge Network Manager?

Uhh, needing to configure networking yourself? Fairly obvious, no?
Aside from that, likely a lack of GUI network configuration / tray widgets / whatever... Unless you install something else that provides those, of which there are several. None of them have the extensive feature set creep networkmanager does though.

NM is useful for systems that use a variety of transient networks, e.g. wifi, cell modem, bridges, tunnels, vpns etc. where the user wants a unified GUI that can configure and switch between those on-the-fly. Essentially, It's designed for coffee-shop-warriors with laptops.

NM is downright aggravating if manual network configuration is common, or a single, fixed, reliable connection is required at boot. e.g. the system has NFS mounts or the user regularly does 'ip whatever' or 'ifconfig whatever' to connect with static addresses or manual routing.

NM is completely pointless for servers or workstations that have fixed wired networking or rarely change connections.

Vague question -> vague answers.

Last edited by steve_v (Today 11:26:00)

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