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
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- networkmanager.dev
- Image
- NetworkManager.png
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- inception
- 2004-11-19
- software version identifier
- 1.56.0
- Stack Exchange tag
- superuser.com/tags/networkmanager
- mailing list archive URL
- mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list
- user manual URL
- networkmanager.dev/docs
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/nm
- source code repository URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.git
- official blog URL
- networkmanager.dev/blog
- issue tracker URL
- gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues
- Commons category
- NetworkManager
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Article
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.