RE: Issue with Auto eth0

["Hooker, Jonathan" <Jonathan Hooker garmin com>]

Also, might there be a way to just add an option: DHCP_CLIENT_ID to ifcfg so that NM would just pick up on it and send it to the DHCP server?


Jonathan Hooker
Desktop Support - Engineering
Garmin International
jonathan hooker garmin com

-----Original Message-----
From: Hooker, Jonathan
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 11:34 PM
To: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Issue with Auto eth0

Hi,

I am a system administrator for a large (300+) fedora desktop environment and am in the process of creating a new image to deploy to all of my developers. I have been having issues with setting up NM to connect properly to our dhcp servers so that we can configure forward dns lookups. Basically what I have done is create an Auto Ethernet connection which has the following gconf settings:

 /system/networking/connections/1/ipv4:
  routes = []
  addresses = []
  method = auto
  dhcp-hostname = testd63fed
  dhcp-client-id = nixdns-testd63fed
  dns-search = [garmin.com,ad.garmin.com,nix.garmin.com]
  name = ipv4
  dns = []
 /system/networking/connections/1/802-3-ethernet:
  name = 802-3-ethernet
  duplex = full
 /system/networking/connections/1/connection:
  id = Auto Ethernet
  timestamp = 1238728735
  type = 802-3-ethernet
  uuid = 2d204a05-4c70-4080-ad23-34b53d5a95fe
  name = connection

The problem is that this does not by default start when the system does. I have also tried putting these settings in the root user's gconf. Is there any way I can tell Network Manager to by default select Auto Ethernet as opposed to the standard System eth0? I know that System eth0 pulls from my ifcfg-eth0 scripts but there is no way I can tell of sending the dhcp-hostname and dhcp-client-id back to the dhcp server without using this or dhclient. I would really like for all of my network device settings to be managed from the same program. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Jonathan Hooker
Desktop Support - Engineering
Garmin International
jonathan hooker garmin com


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