On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:12:28PM -0500, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Dan Williams wrote: > >> I tend to think there will be a place for manual network configuration >> for a long time (no matter what jeremy says :), because there are some >> situations that are just too borderline to support in the short term, or >> are sufficiently borderline that the maintenance cost of adding the >> feature outweighs the benefit of the feature in the first place. >> There's always a tradeoff to feature addition. > > I sure hope so. I routinely have an embedded device plugged into the Ethernet > port on my laptop and have wireless connected to the internal network. The > embedded devices do not always have a dhcp server on them. If I cannot configure > the network manually, now I cannot do my job. > > NM in F9 handles this surprisingly well (Thank You). I hope no one > decides to break this behavior because they do not happen to use this > feature. With NM managing both connections, it will alow both interfaces to be active at the same time. One could have a static config that you can edit/change easily through the Connection Editor, while the other could be using DHCP. In my experience with 2 ethernets in my desktop system , this works great as long as only one of the devices supplies/is configured with a default route. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
