Its planned for NetworkManager to support static IP addresses at some stage of its development. Just not now. Dan On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 09:31 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > 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 > >
