Re: Disable NM for eth0 or setting a static ip

[Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip kanarip com>]

Rajko Albrecht wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:33 +0100, Rajko Albrecht wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried to find a possiblity for using NM for WLan and VPN but not for
> > > ethX interfaces. Or setting up static IPs for cable interfaces.
> > >
> > > Is this meanwhile possible or must I disable NM?
> > Some distributions allow you to disable specific interfaces from
> > NetworkManager.  Ubuntu, SUSE, and Fedora have facilities for this.
> > There is limited support for static IPs in 0.6.x, and better support for
> > them in 0.7.x (yet to be released).  Note that in 0.6.x, hiding an
> > interface just  makes NM ignore it, NM will still bring up connections
> > on other interfaces.
>
> HOW do I hide an interface? I don't find any documentation about it. No 
> Readme, on webpage isn't a documentation, no configuration description inside 
> (fedora) packages, (which are described as NetworkManager 0.7.0 in Fedora 8 
> but think it is a 0.6.5),  inside source packages are no documentations. 
>
> So it would great not just telling it works but where I find some 
> documentation how to configure NetworkManager and NM-Dispatcher.

Set NM_CONTROLLED=no in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX

Side-effect; NM will completely ignore the interface and show there is 
no connection (at all) even though ethX is connected ;-)

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip