On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:44:04 +0100 lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > There does appear to be some NetworkManager interface through the > > command line. Dunno whether it's going to be of any use to you, > > though. > > Hm I didn't find out what it is yet. man nmcli man nm-tool man nm-online man NetworkManager man NetworkManager.conf If you prefer a GUI to control NetworkManager, you probably want to yum install NetworkManager-gnome and start nm-applet utility, which should land in your system-tray/dock/whatever, and from where you can do everything else. > > As may have been pointed out in this thread, but definitely in the > > past, NetworkManager is probably not be suitable for servers. It > > is geared towards having something else configure your network, > > usually a server is self-configured, or at least the central server > > is (the one everything else relies on). > > It's a very strange idea that something else should configure the > network. Why do you consider such a scenario to be strange? The dhcp was invented for precisely this purpose. It is widely used on laptops and other mobile devices, in home&office environments for desktops, etc. Typically only servers need to have a static IP. And even that can be remote-configured by the dhcp server. In fact, the dhcp server itself is the only one requiring a static manually-configured IP. Everything else can be configured by a remote dhcp server. > Anyway, I still want to know, even with networkmanager disabled. It > doesn't hurt to learn something new :) > > > I have to admit I'm intrigued to find out what would happen if you > > ran a DHCP server on a machine with NetworkManager handling the > > network interfaces. But not sufficiently to try it out, at 2:30 in > > the morning. > > It probably won't work because there won't be any network interfaces > configured the DHCP server could use to receive broadcasts and send > answers so that networkmanager could configure such interfaces. The dhcp server requires a NIC with a static IP (it cannot serve itself). If NetworkManager is configured so that it assigns a static IP to that particular interface, dhcp will be happy, and everything will work well. It can even serve the IPs for other NICs on the same machine (if any are present), and NetworkManager will pick those up and configure them, if they are set up to use dhcp... ;-) > > Regarding trying to find its configuration files, I would have tried > > something like: locate -i networkmanager |grep etc I doubt that in normal circumstances one would ever need to manually edit files in /etc/NetworkManager/. All configuration files that are related to the actual network interfaces (used by NM) are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/, among which the most interesting are the ifcfg-* files. Those are probably the only files that one could be motivated to hand-edit. At least in normal circumstances, and in the absence of a GUI utility. HTH, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
