On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 08:45:57 -0400, Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> static addressing, > If you want to do that, you just don't use NetworkManager. What's the target audience and usage scenario for NetworkManager again? There are real world intranets that don't use dhcp, where desktops are assigned a static ip, and where linux, while not officially supported by the helpdesk or it, is tolerated. If NetworkManager is there to make connectivity drop-dead easy to setup and manage, static addressing needs some level of support if you want to target end-users running systems inside a variety of intranets and not just home users sitting behind a cable modem router. It's not so much a question of what a user wants to do... its a question of what the network-admins force a user to do, and making it as easy and painless as possible for an end-user trying to get a linux system up in running in a non-supportive environment. -jef"sitting on a staticly addresses linux desktop on an intranet at the moment, and is desperately hoping that the configuration tools get good enough so that the 10 other people in the wing of the facility can FINALLY be able to install and configure their own boxes without ever having to bother me since the hinderdesk doesn't offer ANY support for linux even though the technical staff are all pretty much running at least one linux box, but I'm not bitter, not bitter at all"spaleta
