NetworkManager
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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
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- 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.