> Yes, this is getting off the subject. The real issue here is: > > 1) NetworkManager does not implement a good chunk of the configuration > functionality available via DHCP. From what I can see, it ignores > ntp-servers, domain-name, and host-name. The only thing it does, > apparently, is set the IP address, the subnet mask, the routing table, and > generate /etc/resolv.conf. > > 2) Even though dhclient-script is perfectly capable of handling the > remaining DHCP options that NetworkManager does not yet implement, it is > prevented from doing so. I cannot see any good reason for that. > > 3) None of the above is documented anywhere. It would've saved me a great > deal of trouble if some README somewhere simply told me: yes, NetworkManager > does not implement X and Y. > > The only reason I haven't filed a bug in Bugzilla is because I'm really only > about 70% sure of the above, based on the snippets of code I looked at so > far, and I've hacked around this mess using NetworkManagerDispatcher. I > don't like to file bugs in Bugzilla only to get a NOTABUG (it's implemented, > but you don't know the magic incantation for finding the documentation how > to set it up). Whatever the problem is you are complaining to the wrong list. Post to: networkmanager-list@xxxxxxxxx -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
