Re: Static ip configuration

[Rémi Cardona <remi cardona free fr>]

Derek Frye wrote:

> I think probably not a good idea. Sometimes my distribution-specific 
> tool doesn't work, or freezes, especially when I run developmental 
> releases. Also, some distros (gentoo and others) don't have default 
> tools, but read config files.
>
> Better to let NM source a config file or hook into whatever method your 
> distro tool writes out than add a button to NM.

Since you mention Gentoo, it should be said that on this distro, NM 
completely overrides the network management scripts. In fact, I had to 
delete the symlinks pointing to net.eth1 and net.eth0 (individiual ifup 
scripts in init.d) to tell the system it should *not* take care of 
setting up any interfaces (other than loopback)

So to sum it up, in gentoo, I cannot add static ips anymore without 
turning off NM. Not a problem for me since there's DHCP everywhere I go, 
but I can definitely imagine why some people would want such an option.

Again, this might be dependent on how NM interacts with other distros.

Rémi