Re: nm-edit? Static entries?

[Michael Biebl <biebl teco edu>]

Quoting Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>:

> Jeff Moore wrote:
> > I am hoping that something like the nm-edit suggestion below is in the
> > works or is already implemented. I don't have a very good knowledge of
> > the inner workings of NM so I would like to ask all of you if there is
> > something in place that would allow an individual to statically set an
> > interfaces properties?
>
> I have this planned, with a nice little UI for it in my mind, but it
> needs some networkmanager work. The applet itself currently does not
> store any IP settings, and I think the backend itself only does DHCP at
> the moment.
>
> > I have little to no programming experience but this is something that I
> > am so interested in that I would be willing to learn. Any tips pointers
> > etc.?
>
> Essentially, the backend would have to call out to "ifconfig <ip>
> <netmask> up" and then call "route add default gw <foo>" and then edit
> the /etc/resolv.conf file to add DNS. Next, the dbus communication
> between the backend and the applet would need to support transferring
> those settings, and the applet would need to store them. Adding editing
> to the currently-alpha-grade editor wouldn't be too bad after that.

This all sounds great. But there is one issue imo: It always requires  
a logged in user, because the configuration has to be passed from  
nm-applet to NM.
One wish I have for NM 0.7 is to have system profiles, so the  
administrator could setup default profiles for certain  
wired/wireless/static ip/dynamic ip connections.
Atm if you have a machine which is used by multiple users, everyone  
has to configure the network individually.

Michael


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