Re: Is networkmanager to use only with dhcp connections?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 20:57 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Michelasso <qzerty gmail com> wrote:
> > So what?
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > Is (k)networkmanager supposed to work only with dhcp?
> > Is this a only kde-related issue and in Gnome everything works?
> >
> 
> At this time Network-Manager does not work with static addresses so
> you need to use DHCP for it to work.  I think Static IP address
> settings are scheduled for .7.

NM _sort_ _of_ supports static IP addresses.  If you set up a static IP
address in your system configuration files (ie, on fedora
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX) NM will honor that static
IP _always_ for that connection.  Of course, that means you can't easily
switch back and forth between static and DHCP on a connection, of
course, but that's life for now.

dan

> 
> If you don't want to enable DHCP on your home router (Though I don't
> see why not...) and it supports setting a reservation you could create
> a pool with no addresses but then create a reservation for your laptop
> then it would only distribute one address and that would be only to
> your laptop.  I played with my DD-WRT and it seemed to allow that
> there.
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