Re: nm-edit? Static entries?

["Daniel Espinosa" <esodan gmail com>]

2006/6/21, 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.

There is a solution, to allow save the profiles in two ways:

- As profiles stored by the user corrently logged in.

- As profiles stored by the administrator (root), and this could be saved as "mandatory keys in gconf" or "default" configuration for the entry system.

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