Am 2014-12-26 um 21:53 schrieb Yves:
> Choices should be provided to the users.
> For laptops/workstations perhaps consider connman and optional wicd?
> Towards servers could be different I guess...

Servers have static IPs, so /etc/network/interfaces should satisfy, with
one exception: MAC/ethX assignment for servers with multiple interfaces;
currently this is configurable through
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

Christoph