This document is a WORK IN PROGRESS.
This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

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Network managers

A network manager lets you manage network connection settings in so called network profiles to facilitate switching networks. There are many solutions to choose from, but remember that all of them are mutually exclusive; you should not run two daemons simultaneously. This cheat sheets will just link you to some of the most known solutions.

Reference(s)

• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Network_management
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Category:Network_managers
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#Network_managers

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Table of contents

• Solutions

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Solutions

• Wired and wireless network managers (recommended):

  • NetworkManager
  • systemd-networkd (⚠️ only for SystemD-based distros ⚠️)
  • ConnMan
  • netctl : TODO (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Netctl).
  • netifrc: TODO (⚠️ only for Gentoo-based distros ⚠️)
  • dhcpcd

• Wireless only network managers:

  • iwd (iNet wireless daemon): TODO (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd).
  • wpa_supplicant

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