Re: static ip (newb)

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 verizon net>]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 12:55 pm, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 12:51 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > I'm wondering about static IP.  I use openvpn, and need a static IP
> > because my wireless router has to be configd to forward the openvpn port
> > to the correct IP for my laptop.
> >
> > I read that networkmanager doesn't support static IP?  I think the
> > architecture I just described requires it.  I don't think my linksys
> > allows it's dhcp server to be configured to fix the IP from the MAC
> > address.  I think the architecture I just described can't be very
> > unusual.  Any ideas?
>
> Hi,
>
> Technically, yes, NM supports Static IP.  This is highly distribution
> dependent though, since each distro has its own config file format for
> this stuff.  On Fedora Core, for example, this information is kept
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<your interface>.  For Fedora,
> Static IP should work, with the exception of /etc/resolv.conf.  We
> currently don't touch /etc/resolv.conf at all in Static IP
> configurations, which means you won't have automatic DNS when using NM
> like this :(  It's not been a top priority for me, but I should probably
> fix that up.
>
> I think system-config-network on Fedora keeps the /etc/resolv.conf
> around somewhere for each interface or something like that, I don't
> actually know.  If I did, I could fix it up fairly easily I suspect.
>

OK, yes, I'm using Fedora core 3.  When you say "NM supports static IP", you 
mean it "just works"?  Assuming I have a working FC3 setup with static IP, I 
can install NM (e.g., using yum) and it should just work?