Comment 150 for bug 211631

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Johan Ryberg (jryberg) wrote : Re: [Bug 211631] Re: Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS timeout at shutdown)

Good point!
Den 24 maj 2011 22.54 skrev "bdoe" <email address hidden>:
>>On a functional level perhaps it is worth considering whether Network
>>Manager, on stopping, should simply leave the interfaces as currently
>>configured instead of taking them down. I can make the argument that
>>Network Manager is a tool to make it easy for the user to control
>>network interfaces, but Network Manager is not the owner of those
>>interfaces, the system and user are. If the user makes a connection using
>>Network Manger and then disables NM, why shouldn't the interface stay
>>up until the user or a shutdown sequence takes it down?
>
> Good point. However, an argument could also be made that if a user uses
> Network Manager to set up and establish the network connections, the
> user expects Network Manager to own and manage those connections. A
> logical extension of this expectation is that, when Network Manager is
> shut down, it takes its connections with it. If the user wants a more
> "permanent" connection, then the user should set up the connection
> manually. At least, that's the way I would expect things to work.
>
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> Title:
> Network is brought down before network filesystems are unmounted (CIFS
> timeout at shutdown)
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