Re: hostname support (dhcpcd -h)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 13:10 +0200, Oliver Schinagl wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> first off, awesome work so far on the network manager. I've seen it in
> the latest Fiesty release of Ubunutu and was quite impressed. To bad
> it's gnome only, as I'd love to also be able to use with xfce (sans the
> gnome bulk).
> 
> Anyway, I hope this isn't asked/mention earlier, I couldn't find it in
> the mailinglist archive.
> 
> At my university, where I can hookup my laptop to the local
> infrastructure, it is required that your hostname is set to your
> username. Under windows anyway, the linux dhcpcd client has a neat
> option however, -h to specify a specific hostname to query the dhcp
> server with. Right now, changing the hostname via the network manager
> changes the hostname of the entire box, and thus renames my laptop,
> something that's not required or wanted.

Stock NetworkManager never changes your hostname unless you're on SUSE.
This is likely a custom Ubuntu patch, please file a bug in Ubuntu's
launchpad if the behavior is unwanted.

> So here's my question/suggestion, would it be possible to add a hostname
> field per connection instead of renaming the entire machine for such
> purpouses?

Not in 0.6, but in 0.7 it will be possible.

Dan