Re: Is Ignore interfaces supported?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:50 +0000, Nick Byrne wrote:
> So i can re-configure and unconfigure my ethernet 
> interfaces without NM interfering with the process.
> 
> I need to do this quite often for development purposes,
> when i unconfigure an interface and then connect a
> cable to the interface NM decides thats my primary
> interface (because it's faster than wireless i assume)
> and reconfigures my network which i don't want. 
> 
> If i preconfigure an interface and then plug in a
> cable NM doesn't seem to interfere though so thats what
> i've been doing until now, but sometime i forget to
> configure before plugging in and i end up losing all
> my network config so it would be nice just to be able
> to configure it to ignore specific interfaces.

Depends on whether you're using 0.7 or 0.6.

0.7: two ways; either unmanage the device, or set any connection that
applies to that device 'autoconnect=no'

0.6: unmanage the device using the distros network config tools

Dan