Re: Proposal: NetworkManager for GNOME 2.18.

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Xavier,

NetworkManager requires dhcdbd which exists to:

        o  provide D-BUS control of the ISC dhclient software,
        o  store DHCP configuration parameters (options) persistently
        o  providing access to DHCP options over D-BUS
        o  notify applications of changes to DHCP IP interface
        configuration
        
NetworkManager in its present form does not work without a patched
version of the ISC software. Consequently, I am suggesting that only the
NetworkManager applet be included in GNOME 2.18.


-Joseph

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On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 10:59 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 21:07 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I have been working [with David Cantell's help] to get NetworkManager to
> > work under GARNOME.  When I started this exercise, I was running
> > YDL-4.1, an FC4 clone. I found that the installed version of dhcp was
> > "high enough", but lacked a patch that is required for NetworkManager to
> > work.  This patch provides support for a "-x" option for dhclient.
> 
> How does that work for people not using dhclient but pump (e.g. because
> pump correctly reports the hostname to the dhcp server) ?
> 
> 	Xav
> 
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