On 04/04/2011 12:56 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >> It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible >> permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able >> to do things like 1k (or more) interfaces. It also doesn't support hooks >> to be able to do more advanced setups, such as multihoming, policy >> routing, QoS, etc. > > Is it necessary for the distribution's *default* network-management solution > to > handle all of these?
Yes. For a distribution which is targeted to support servers properly, yes, definitely. For everything else there is Ubuntu. -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprints: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4da56479.60...@bzed.de