Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au> wrote: On 26 September 2014 09:32, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: True, the usecases overlap somewhat, but they're still different. I wouldn't want to install n-m (and the 30 libraries it depends on) in an initramfs, for instance. Unless I am mistaken, I believe systemd-networkd would be a lot better suited the n-m on servers. Configuration is stored in plain text files, can be recorded in etckeeper/git, etc.
As Vincent explained, NM works in a similar way. The problem on servers is that you need advanced features such as bridging, VLANs, bonding… and NM already does all of that. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-