Re: Static Ip Address (newb question)

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:58 -0700, David Weir wrote:
> Hello all,
> I want to use network manager on my dell laptop running Kubuntu 7.04. 
> The version available is 0.6.4-6.
>  I tried it out, but when I attempted to assign a static IP address, it 
> would hold it for approx 1 minute, then assign a different IP address 
> (last byte different). Can you help me find out where it's getting that 
> last byte from?
> 
> My netmask is 255.255.255.192, i try to assign XXX.XXX.XXX.185 and it 
> insisted on assigning XXX.XXX.XXX.170.
> 
> Now I've uninstalled networkmanager and am having to manage the switch 
> between wired and wireless manually.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> David
> 

David, at this time NetworkManager does not support static IP addresses.
This feature is planned for the next major release.  If this is
connected to a SOHO router you can probably assign a reservation on the
router so it always gets the same address from DHCP.