Re: Static ip configuration

["Haripriya S" <sharipriya novell com>]

Will it be a good thing to have a way to invoke the distribution-specific tool (system-config-network, YaST, whatever) to configure the network adapters from nm-applet? I have used netapplet before and that allows it. Also, nm-applet allows "Configure VPN", so why not allow "Configure Network Settings" also from nm-applet?

Thanks and Regards,
Haripriya S.
 
>>> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> 11/30/05 7:50 am >>> 
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:46 -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 22:26 +0100, Christian Güdel wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > why doesn't NetworkManager has an interface to manually set an IP adress
> > on an interface? Does this have a special reason? Or is it just not
> > implemented yet?
> 
> I am kind of curious about this too.  I don't have a specific need right
> now, but it would be nice to use when traveling with the requirement of
> static ip's.

NetworkManager actually does support static IP addresses.  You configure
them the normal way your distribution does.  ie, in Fedora, you use
system-config-network which puts the config
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX.  NetworkManager loads this
information when it starts and uses the static IP, gateway, netmask, etc
for that interface from then on.

Dan

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