Re: Interface hotplugging and priorities

[Aldric Degorre <aldric degorre imag fr>]

Le lundi 5 mai 2008, Dan Williams a écrit :
> Yeah, 0.6 won't work so well for you here.  0.7 has the option to tie
> connections to a specific MAC address, and then you could set
> autoconnect=FALSE for that MAC-locked connection, which would cause NM
> to only bring it up when you click it manually.
>
That would indeed solve my problem, if not that of the newcomer who doesn't 
know what it is all about.

> With the usb0 cellular connection, is the computer expected to use DHCP
> to acquire an IP address?
>
That's right. At least that's the way to use the usb0 interface.
My phone is also recognized as a modem for which I can set up a ppp script. 
But the latter method is uselessly complicated when I already have a network 
interface with dhcp.

> Dan



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Aldric DEGORRE