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NetworkManager

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Also known as Network Manager, nm

NetworkManager is a daemon that sits on top of libudev and other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces to simplify the use of computer networks on Linux distributions.

Key facts

Software.name
NetworkManager
Software.logo
NetworkManager logo.svg
Software.screenshot
Linux desktop system daemons and their graphical front-ends.svg
Software.screenshot size
300px
Software.caption
NetworkManager is a system daemon, with various graphical front-ends available
Software.author
Red Hat
Software.programming language
C with GObject
Software.operating system
Linux
Software.license
GNU LGPL v2.1 or later, portions GNU GPL v2 or later

via Wikipedia infobox

~7 min read

Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • How it works
  • Configuration of network interfaces without NetworkManager
  • Configuration of network interfaces with NetworkManager
  • Software architecture
  • Graphical front-ends and command line interfaces
  • Mobile broadband support
  • History
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

NetworkManager is a daemon that sits on top of libudev and other Linux kernel interfaces (and a couple of other daemons) and provides a high-level interface for the configuration of the network interfaces to simplify the use of computer networks on Linux distributions.

==How it works== thumb|Linux kernel: network device drivers and network stack. Utility programs are not depicted, they communicate through the SCI with the different components of the kernel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NetworkManager” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.