Re: traditional static ip with nm

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 09:29 +0000, Graham Lyon wrote:
> 2009/12/5 David Griffith <dgriffi cs csubak edu>
>         On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Dan Williams wrote:
>         
>                 NM natively supports static IP addresses; so you can
>                 either configure
>                 them via /etc/network/interfaces as you normally
>                 would, or you can use
>                 nm-connection-editor along with the 'keyfile' plugin
>                 to set up a
>                 system-wide configuration for your  machines without
>                 touching /e/n/i.
>         
>         
>         My problem with that approach is that the network goes down
>         when the console is logged out.
> 
> 
> Not anymore - networkmanager supports system-wide connections that
> stay active as long as the networkmanager daemon is running.

Exactly; those are called "system settings" and are described here: