Re: Autostarting NetworkManager in Fedora 8 prevents sshd to start properly

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:37 +0100, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:
> When the NetworkManager service is set to autostart on boot in Fedora
> 8 (using 'chkconfig NetworkManager on'), it is no more possible to
> remotely connect via ssh on boot unless a login took place directly on
> the machine. This problem was not present in Fedora 7. Any clues how
> to solve this problem?
> 
> The official version of NM Fedora 8 currenly uses is
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8.

Sounds like sshd is binding to an IP address and not handling changes
when your IP address changes.  You should probably set up a
NetworkManagerDispatcher script to kick sshd in the head (ie service
sshd restart) when the network settings change.  This functionality
should really be in sshd itself, doing something like avahi does where
it watches netlink link & address events and handles the changes
automatically.

dan