Re: Will the next version of NetworkManager be able to deal with changing nfs systems?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Hi,

Quoting Robert Smits <bob rsmits ca>:

> Hello, folks.
>
> I'm new to this list and can't find the answer in the archives, and search
> does not appear to work.
>
> I have a laptop running the SuSe 10.2 KDE desktop and  I can't use
> KnetworkManager and NetworkManager to handle my network connections because
> NetworkManager doesn't seem able to handle changing nfs networks. This means
> I'm forced to use ifup with scmp to change my profiles as I move around, and
> I'd much prefer NetworkManager.
>
> Will the next release deal with this? Do we know when? What can we do to
> encourage it?

Why can't you write a Dispatch script to handle it for you?  NM runs
a bunch of scripts when the network goes up and down, and you can
run the scripts to handle the processing.

> Thanks, Bob

-derek

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