On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:08 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 08:45:57AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > > > static addressing, > > > > If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager. > > That then requires someone ensures every single script/option/method called > by NetworkManager is also called by the old style paths. Not sure about that. The "old style" is very manual. NetworkManager is entirely dynamic and moving as much per-user as possible. There are probably things on the old path that shouldn't be used by NetworkManager, or if they are used, it should just be as fallbacks. > It also prevents > numerous sensible real world usages like "dynamic IP on wireless but prefer > my static IP on ethernet when at home" - classic configuration. If you care enough to want a static IP address at home, then it shouldn't be problematic to set up a DHCP server that has static IPs for your MACs. > > > cable modems, > > > > My experience is these are all just DHCP. > > Your experience is incomplete. I am well aware of that :) > > > ppp, ... > > > > This is tricky in a NetworkManager world, since there is no way to know > > when the user has plugged in a phone cable into their modem (AFAIK). > > Probably we will just require using system-config-network for this case=
