Re: Is Ignore interfaces supported?

[Nick Byrne <nicholas byrne quadriga com>]

Dan Williams <dcbw <at> redhat.com> writes:

> 
> 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
> 

Great, almost :) I am using fedora 8 and NM 0.8. Where 
do i "unmanage the device" there are no options available
in nm-applet that i can see  to do this.
Where do i set 'autoconnect=no'? Where is the config
for NM to be found - can you point me to a reference
for it? Thanks