On Tuesday 24 March 2009 17:38:40 Colin Walters wrote: > Also, in my opinion on a well-managed network if you want a fixed IP > address, the right way to do it is MAC matching on the DHCP server, > not client configuration. And NetworkManager works well in such a > setup. You're entitled to your opinion, but not everyone wants to have to set up DHCP, and not everyone wants to have to go their sysadmin and request configuration changes to the corporate DHCP server just to change some piece of configuration FOR THEIR LOCAL MACHINE with all the annoyance to the sysadmin, timewasting for me, and so on. It used to be nice and simple; you put the DNS server(s) in /etc/resolv.conf or in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0, you got a network connection when the system booted. It's not always correct to remove the DNS settings from /etc/resolv.conf when you shut the machine down; I disabled NM on my rawhide test install because I could no longer chroot into it from my older system and run "yum" to update (or a number of other things) due to "host not found" errors. NetworkManager may "work" well in some setups; it's just annoying to see it touted as a panacæa when it plainly isn't handling a lot of nice simple setups at all well. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
