Given the comments so far, I'm wondering why Apple seems so bent on reinventing the wheel lately. They obviously haven't followed Joel Spolsky's advice (ref http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html).
Yosemite networking is still a pig, even with the 10.10.2 update. Networking worked just fine for years until Apple decided to implement an entirely new network daemon in Yosemite for whatever reason.
Now it seems it will begin all over again with Photos.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
