Re: Network manager and Debian sid

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 12:05 +0200, Marco wrote:
> Thanks guys for your work!!
> 
> I'have been following the development of NM 0.7 project since January
> and now I succedded in packaging all the NetworkManager stuff for my
> debian sid box.
> 
> After some quarrel on the new nm-system setting service that is now a
> system-service I can now use NetworkMnager right from the init.d boot
> process assigning my Eth0 the right address before logging in.
> I had to delete all entries in /etc/network/interfaces matching eth0
> to start NM without racing with /etc/init.d/networking. Even the only
> "auto eth0" lead to a wrong configuration of NM, probably because of
> debian network scripts bring up eth0 in ipv6. With only loopback in
> /etc/network/interfaces all is fine.
> 
> I now use the keyfile plugin under debian and the new PolicyKit rules
> to manage the system-connections.
> My system-connection is:
> marco marco-debian:~$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/Casa
> 
> [connection]
> id=Casa
> type=802-3-ethernet
> autoconnect=true
> timestamp=1205857717
> 
> [802-3-ethernet]
> port=tp
> speed=0
> duplex=full
> auto-negotiate=true
> mtu=0
> 
> [ipv4]
> method=manual
> address1=192.168.233.2;255.255.255.0;192.168.233.1;

Sorry about that :)  Before 0.7 is out we'll document the format of the
options somewhere.  At least they are now represented as strings instead
of a UINT32...

Dan